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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me out of college and all Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.
"I was going home, sir," replied Simon, with the deferential air of a very little to a very big man. "Ay going to clap on hatches and deadlights. Well, tell me one thing where-away may one find one Mr. Latitat a shore-going cove, a regular land-shark, d'ye see?" "This is Mr. Latitat's office, sir," said Simon. "Ay and is he within hail?" "No, sir, he has gone home."
There was no wind, and only the long, heaving ground swell, which rolled the boat slightly, but not enough to bring those tantalizing deadlights within reach; and at last, at the sound of dishes rattling in the galley, Denman called out. "Florrie!" he shouted. "Florrie, come on deck. Throw a rope over. Florrie oh, Florrie!"
The door was taking on the look of a sieve, and the neighbourhood of the deadlights, Lanyard's sole avenue of escape, was being well peppered. Something would have to be done about it... Lanyard completed his preparations by kicking off his shoes and taking up another notch in the belt that supported his trousers.
The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me out of college and all Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle. That was Roberts' men, that was, and comed of changing names to their ships Royal Fortune and so on.
The town folks tiptoed away, the men looking solemn but glad, and the women swabbing their deadlights and saying how affecting 'twas, and so on. Oh, you could see that show would do business THAT night, if it never did afore. The manager got after Jonadab and me later on, and did his best to pump us, but he didn't find out much.
The boat was built for under-water going, so little daylight penetrated the interior through the few small deadlights, or round, heavy glass windows, but electric incandescent bulbs fed by current from the storage batteries lit the interior brilliantly.
She clumped out into the kitchen again in her heavy shoes. Cap'n Amazon came slowly back to his chair. "Blind!" he repeated. "I want to know! Both his deadlights out. Too bad! Too bad!" He did not seem to care for any more breakfast. Footsteps in the store soon brought the substitute shopkeeper to his feet again.
The problem was certainly simple enough, but for that very reason the more inexplicable. If they were moving the explosion must have taken place; but if the explosion had taken place, why had they not heard the report? Barbican's decision soon put an end to speculation. "Conjecture being useless," said he, "let us have recourse to facts. First, let us see where we are. Drop the deadlights!"
The upper-deck seams let in the rain, and when once the lower-decks were wet it was very difficult to dry them. It was impossible to close the gun-deck ports so as to make them watertight, for the water would find cracks to come in at, even though the edges of the lids were caulked with oakum, and the orifices further barred by deadlights or wooden shutters.
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