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Updated: May 13, 2025
But such was not to be, for in a twinkling the wind died down, and the sail hung limp and useless. With a startled cry, Eben gave the wheel a rapid turn and headed the boat for the shore, hoping thus to escape from the racing current into slower water to the left. But the "Eb and Flo" was in the grip of a stronger master, and swinging partly around, obeyed the current's strong behest.
Carse shoved back the screen concealing the infamous device. "We know where this switch is, at least. If only the current's not been turned off!" "Probably not," the Master Scientist said, out of his own technical thought-train. Friday hung back, loath to be concerned. He looked askance at the thing, his open mouth a small round circle. The Hawk was at the switch, but his hand hesitated.
'The current's flowing pretty rapidly one way, and the wind's driving us along at a fair speed in exactly the opposite direction; you might be carried miles out into the open before we could get a boat out. Harry went to the side and looked down at the water that was eddying past.
You see, sir," he went on, "if once we dropped to leeward of the landing-place, it's hard to say where we should get ashore, besides the chance of being boarded by the gigs; whereas, the way we go the current must slacken, and then we can dodge back along the shore." "The current's less a'ready, sir," said the man Gray, who was sitting in the foresheets; "you can ease her off a bit."
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