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There's half a score of cuts in him, different places. Here, lads, rig a stretcher, an' let's get him back to the ship." When the unconscious body of their big friend had been placed gently in the boat, Bob and Jeremy turned to each other with sober faces. "It was a costly sort of victory," said Bob. "This deck's not a pretty sight, and there's nothing much we can do to help.
"Deck's clear, sir," said Frank to von Ludwig. "Now to lend Harris a hand in the engine room." "Forward, then," said von Ludwig. "All except you, Frank, and you, Jack. You two stay on deck. Take the wheel again, Frank. Jack, you stand at the head of the companionway and shoot the first German who appears there."
"That is a good idea," added the captain. "Rather too many men for a young man to command," said Deck's father, shaking his head. "He is the best officer in the squadron for this duty," persisted the captain of the first company. Major Lyon yielded the point, for the aide-de-camp had practically ordered Deck to the command of the expedition.
The second lieutenant in front of Deck's men was a noble-looking young man, who fought like a lion at bay, and defended himself with great skill from the two Union troopers that assailed him in front; but it was an unequal conflict, and presently he was wounded in the sword-arm, so that he could no longer use his sabre with that hand, and grasped it with his left.
Ceph, the name of Deck's noble steed, which had been abbreviated from Bucephalus, seemed to Life, whose attention was fixed upon his officer, restive and uneasy: but his rider did not bring him into a leaping posture, as he had done on a former occasion, and had been charged by his superiors with reckless daring; but the charger suddenly stood up on his hind feet, as though he intended to attempt the leap over the Confederate officer's horse on his own responsibility.
He had assumed that she was all right. But a cold rush of doubt assailed him. "Virginia, Virginia are you all right?" he called in tones of agony. "I saw her at the third boat," said the first officer. "You must look alive, Mr. Howland we'll have to lower directly the Captain comes. The deck's going now."
Without asking any questions he proceeded to remove Deck's coat, and assisted him to take off the rest of his clothes, which had not been done before except when he took his baths in the streams. "Now jump into bed, Leftenant; give me your shirt, and I will dry the whole of your duds. The room is warm now."
We will ask the pirates, or whatever the black gentlemen may be, to be civil; and I am sure that they are more likely to be so if we are submissive, than if we were to try and turn them out of their vessels, which we could not do." I must own, now I come to reflect calmly on the subject, that there was some wisdom in Mrs Van Deck's observations.
"I beg your pardon, miss," Brown ventured, "but the deck's closed at the end, as you can see, with sail-cloth, and I was leaning over the rail myself when you shrieked. There wasn't any one else near me, and no one can possibly have passed round the deck, as you can see plainly for yourself." Laura stood quite still. "What doors are there on the side?" she asked.
"Le Polisson, of Brest sixteen light guns, and about a hundred men." "Do you know anything of the ships to windward?" "Nothing, at all; but I suppose them to be French." "Pray, sir, why do you sup um um ook ook " The distance prevented my hearing more. Away went the sloop, steadying her bow-lines; the call piping belay, as each sail was trimmed to the officer of the deck's fancy.
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