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Dodd flew to the helm, and with his own hands put it hard a-weather, to give the deck-guns one more chance, the last, of sinking or disabling the Destroyer. As the ship obeyed, and a deck-gun bellowed below him, he saw a vessel running out from Long Island, and coming swiftly up on his lee quarter. It was a schooner. Was she coming to his aid? Horror! A black flag floated from her foremast head.
But the faint thrill of the dream was in him again, and it troubled him and made him shy, and he found no word to utter no defence to her low-voiced banter. Then, not far away on the port quarter, a deck-gun spoke with a sharper explosion, and intense stillness reigned in the saloon. "If there's any necessity," he whispered, "you recollect your boat, don't you?"
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