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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Will none of you fine fellows launch a boat and go out and try and bring in the boy?" asked Mr Tremayne. "I will give twenty pounds to the crew of the boat which brings him in." "I am sorry, sir, that I cannot allow my men to go out," said the officer of the coast-guard, who heard the offer made.
With the boy came others, old and young, from neighboring ranches, among them a German settler, who was of great assistance to me in many ways. A coast-guard from Fort Teresa, a few miles away, also came, "to protect your property from the natives of the plains," he said.
"Ah, my captain!" soliloquised the coast-guard, as he arranged his cloak around him to the best advantage, "you are a very cunning man, but you have too much faith in people who are always asleep; and devil take me! if I don't believe that you are interested in my sleeping most soundly on this particular night. Well, quien sabe? we shall see."
"Well, well, come along, we will settle that by-and-by," said the lieutenant, as he walked hurriedly on. "I want to see my good sister Sally and assure her that I am as sound in health and limb as when I went away." He had let go Mary's hand, and she and Ned now followed, Charley having got out some time before to take a shorter cut to the coast-guard station, where he expected to find his father.
If for no other reason he owes you a debt for that.” Three days passed. Will still remained at the coast-guard station, and men still hovered near. Tom came over once and said that it had been decided among a number of the fishermen that no great harm should be done to Will when they got him, but that he should be thrashed within an inch of his life.
One man, who looked their superior, was dressed in blue from head to foot. "What's the matter?" I asked the officer of the coast-guard, a sedate, thoughtful-looking man. "Vessel foundered, sir," he answered. "Sprung a leak on Sunday morning. She was laden with iron, and in a heavy ground swell it shifted and knocked a hole in her.
To end the mystery, let us say that the little coaster was a French vessel half-privateer half-smuggler and had entered the bay with a double design the disposing of merchandise and the procuring of provisions, of which the crew began to stand in need. Further we shall add, that the pilot was a skilful fisherman of Elanchovi, furnished by Don Lucas Despierto, captain of the coast-guard!
They are getting ready to scuttle her. The starboard boats are hanging in the davits, ready to lower away when we are behind the island. There is a channel a mile wide in there, and deep soundings. He may find an anchorage until night and then get away in the dark, but I'm afraid he won't take that long, because he knows a coast-guard cutter is liable to spy him out.
It is all a modernised coast-guard system, the men being first ready for ships in distress, but always on the alert for the enemy. This is the story of a British naval officer's trip to the Western fighting ground as he told it to me the day he returned to London: "'Four days! said I to myself.
He knelt down and held his shaking hands to the flames. Some one handed him a bottle, but he turned first and gave it the Marquis de Gemosac, who was shaking all over like one far gone in a palsy. Sea Andrew and the coast-guard captain were persuading Captain Clubbe to quit the beach, but he only answered them roughly in monosyllables. "My place is here till all are safe," he said. "Let me lie."
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