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Updated: May 10, 2025
The enemy made no secret of what they were, for when they got within a mile of us two black flags ran up to their mastheads. "The captain he trained one of the stern chasers hisself, and the first mate took the other. They fired at the same moment, both aiming at the schooner, which was getting the nearest to us. They were good shots both of them.
As they got nearer, a couple of guns were trained aft to serve as stern chasers, and every preparation was made to fight for life and liberty. Another frigate and two line-of-battle ships were seen standing after the first, but they were so far astern, that should the Ione keep ahead, without having her masts and spars shot away, there might still be hopes of her escaping.
The stern chasers of the Salvador desultorily returned the punishing fire of the pursuers; but such was the damage she, herself, sustained, that presently, coming under the guns of the fort, she began to sink, and finally settled down in the shallows with part of her hull above water. Thence, some in boats and some by swimming, the Admiral got his crew ashore on Palomas as best he could.
Here were kept the royal wardrobe and the royal jewels; and hither came with their goody wares the tiremen, the goldsmiths, the chasers and embroiderers, from Flanders, Italy, and Almaigne.
From the fact that ships were attacked in at least three places, within a short space of time, however, it was believed that there were at least three or four of the raiders. From all ports along the coast, destroyers, submarine chasers, motor boats armed with single guns, had put to sea in an effort to run down the raiders.
He tossed off the drink, but when he looked for the chaser the barkeeper shook his head. "No chasers," he said, "water is too blasted scarce that'll be three dollars and twenty-five cents." "Charge it to ground-rent!" grinned Wunpost. "I'm the man that owns this claim. See you later where's Dusty Rhodes?" "No cash!" demanded the barkeeper, looking him coldly in the eye.
There was the same attraction about this freelance warfare which there might have been about a privateer in contrast with a flotilla of modern dreadnaughts and frantic chasers, and it reminded him of Daniel Boone, and Kit Carson, and Davy Crockett, and other redoubtable scouts of old who did not depend on stenching suffocation and the poisoning of streams.
The bottle he left standing ready on the bar. "Here's how, friend Jim!" Whatever Mr. Hackley's foibles, he was a man at his cups. His platform was the straight article uncontaminated by ice or flabby sparkling-water; and chasers and the like of those he left to schoolboys. "Ain't took a drink for days," he said, holding up his glass to the electric light and squinting through it.
Leaving her thus half-crippled, temporarily, at least, and keeping to his course, he had bewildered the crew of the Infanta by a couple of shots from the chasers on his beak-head, then crashed alongside to grapple and board her, whilst Hagthorpe was doing the like by the San Felipe.
For several days she lounged there quietly content, gazing for hours out upon the marvelous mesa land, answering with a cheery wave the gay greetings shouted up to her from chasers loitering beneath her windows.
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