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Caradoc nodded, "I'll go down and send them forward," he asserted with conviction, and started to climb out of the barrel. Madden looked at the Englishman with a certain apprehension, "Caradoc, if you go down there where they are drinking, won't you " "No, I'm not going to drink." "It will be a temptation." "I have myself in hand now. This talk has done me good. No, I'm all right."
"And that goose or something!" Eager hands reached down as Madden and Caradoc handed up the platters. "To the mess room, to the mess room!" directed Leonard. "Sure, sure, we wouldn't touch a mouthful for hanything!" cried Mulcher earnestly. "Misther Madden, you're a wonder!" extolled Hogan. Then the three men climbed up and were received clamorously.
"Betto left me, sobbing bitterly. I think she has never forgiven herself; neither can I forgive myself, Cardo. As the years went on, my sorrow only deepened, and an intense longing arose in my heart for the friendship of the brother who had been so much to me for so many years. I wrote to him, Caradoc a humble, penitent letter, beseeching his forgiveness even as a man begs for his life.
Which way?" "Must be toward the dock, sir!" panted Greer driving up. "Where's Caradoc?" "Yonder." He pointed toward a distant twinkle in the water. "We must get together yell to him, warn him!" The two lads began a strenuous chorus that further used up their exhausted strength. Caradoc responded by a wave of his hand. Then when he understood "sharks" he gathered speed in their direction.
From below came the muffled sounds of men working at the furnace, and in five or ten minutes a film of smoke trickled out of the Vulcan's great funnel. Madden climbed up on the bridge beside Caradoc. "How long before the submarine will be out?" he asked in a low tone. "Small boats will come first," replied Smith. "That's why they shunted off the searchlight to surprise us."
The clean delightful seawater soothed the pain of their stinging flesh. "We'll be there in fifteen minutes," murmured Leonard weakly. "When you're ready, say so," said Greer with a frown still lingering on his heavy face. At that moment Madden heard a groan from Caradoc. "What's the matter?" aspirated the American. "Nothing weak don't bother."
Caradoc took down his glass at the same time. "They've been using the wireless," he stated evenly, "to run us in a cul de sac. I might have known German cruisers were close around." He looked steadily at the distant fighting tops, then turned to Galton. "Steer due north, quartermaster." After a moment, he said to Malone: "When you go below, send me up coffee and a biscuit."
Galton her plot of flowers, and Hogan a tall hat, a long-tailed coat and a silver-headed cane. One week after the Battle of the Sargasso, a formal dinner was given in the officers' mess. At this affair two civilians were present, Leonard Madden and Caradoc Smith-Wentworth. Under the radiance of many electric lights, Caradoc appeared rather weak and bloodless.
"Kind o' warship. It's a mother ship for submarines sort of floatin' dry dock for the little sneakers. She takes 'em aboard, over'auls 'em, gives 'em new stores and torpedoes." "England at war!" repeated Caradoc in a maze. "I must get out of here!" "That's th' word, war!" whispered Malone thickly.
Three belonged to Mr Kennedy; the fourth had been borrowed from a neighbour as a mount for Jacques Caradoc. In a few minutes more, Harry lifted Kate into the saddle, and having arranged her dress with a deal of unnecessary care, mounted his nag.
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