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Admiral Cervera started it by a shell from the 'Almirante Oquendo, to which he had transferred his flag. It struck none of the American vessels. In a twinkling the big guns of the 'Texas' belched forth their thunder, which was followed immediately by a heavy fire from our other ships.
Under the circumstances there was nothing for me to do but to go to Santiago. By this time I was pretty well convinced that the cargo was for Cervera. I suspected that coal had been made a contraband of war, so I wasn’t a bit surprised when the St. Paul brought us to, with a shot, three and a half miles from shore.”
Though considerably jarred, Nick pulled himself together, and gazed up through the darkness at the bottom of the well. Cervera was peering down from the lighted passage three stories above him, Nick having made a clean drop into the cellar of the imposing residence.
Cervera had begun, then stopped, then uttered the startled exclamation; and all with the utmost coolness, with the air of one stirred only by genuine surprise, and as if without the slightest fear or dismay upon beholding Nick Carter in the vestibule. So perfectly natural was her artful assumption, that it rather deceived Nick for a short time.
In the late Spanish-American war what first brought news, authentic in character, to the Navy Department that Cervera with his doomed fleet was in Santiago harbor?
You have tortured me with a thousand fears. I'd like to repay you with a thousand pangs!" Nick's eyes took on an ugly gleam. "Why don't you do so, then?" he growled. "I would, if I had the time," cried Cervera, through her teeth. "You have all there is." "Ten thousand times I'd thrust it into you thus! thus!" Nick set his jaws and met the blade without flinching.
Inside the harbour, caught like rats in a trap of their own making, lay the Spanish fleet under command of Admiral Pasquale Cervera, consisting of the armoured cruisers Cristobal Colon, Vizcaya, Almirante Oquendo, Maria Teresa, Admiral Cervera’s flag-ship; torpedo-boat destroyers Furor and Pluton.
That was the day that a wild rumor had been in circulation that Sampson had met Cervera in the Bahama Channel and completely smashed him, so I laid down my manuscript and said: "Anything in there about Sampson licking Cervera?" "Naw, sir, dat were a fake, cap'n, but dere is lots of oder news fur you." "No, kid, I don't want a paper to-night, and besides I'm not a captain, I'm only a lieutenant."
A naval officer with the squadron summed up the situation in a communication to his friend at home: “Pending the execution of Admiral Sampson’s plan of campaign, our ships form a cordon about the entrance of Santiago Harbour to prevent the possible egress of the Spaniards, should Admiral Cervera be foolhardy enough to attempt to cut his way out.”
After the affair in that sea what's its name? off the island of Cuba, when dear old Admiral Cervera was fished up like a dollop of cotton out of an ink-pot and was received on one of your ships with all the honors due to his rank, the officers all saluting and the crew manning the yards, as it were only they haven't any yards now but lined up in quite the proper way why, it was splendid, just splendid!"
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