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The strange vessel drew nearer and nearer to the Dunkery Beacon, and the two steamers, much to the amazement of the watchers on the yacht, now lay to and seemed prepared to hail each other. They did hail, and after a short time a boat was lowered from the stranger, and pulled to the Dunkery Beacon.
There was another reason which determined him not to change his course. The observers on the Monterey had now decided that the small vessel to the westward of the Dunkery Beacon was very like a yacht, and the Captain thought that if there was to be trouble of any sort, he would like to be as near Shirley and Burke as possible.
"And what are the London people going to do?" "They're not going to do anything so far as I know!" said Burke. "If they could get through with the red-tape business necessary to send any sort of a cruiser or war-vessel after the Dunkery Beacon to protect her, and I'm not sure that they could do it at all, it would be a precious long time before such a vessel would leave the English Channel!
Now matters were getting to be worse and worse, and as Shirley glanced over at the yacht, still hovering on the weather quarter of the Dunkery, ready at any time to swoop down and hail her if there should be occasion, he trembled for the fate of his friends. To be sure these two pirate vessels for sure the Dunkery Beacon now belonged to that class were nothing but merchantmen.
He also noticed that some men near him were running up a queer little flag or signal, colored irregularly red and yellow, and then he saw upon the approaching steamer a bit of bunting which seemed to resemble the one now floating from the Dunkery.
Journeying westward over the hills from Minehead, which is just now endeavoring, though with only partial success, to convert itself into a fashionable watering-place, Dunkery Beacon is seen raising its head inland a brown, heathy moorland elevated seventeen hundred feet above the sea.
Within note the fine Perp. pulpit, carved from a single block of stone: a good screen; the piscina in the vestry, showing that it was formerly a chapel; some old glass. Luccombe, a village at the foot of Dunkery, 2 m. S.E. from Porlock. A mountain brook and some fine timber give the place a pretty air of rusticity.
If they attack us, we'll fight them, but we can't take capital punishment into our own hands." Now the excited thoughts of Captain Hagar took another turn. "Lower a boat! Lower a boat!" he cried. "Let me be pulled to the Dunkery! Everything I own is on that ship, the pirates wouldn't let me take anything away. Lower a boat! I can get into my cabin."
The steamer was from a French port, she carried no cargo, and she was commanded and manned by Captain Hagar and the crew of the English ship Dunkery Beacon. Captain Hagar's story was not a long one, and he told it as readily to Captain Horn as he would to any other friendly mariner who might have boarded him.
It struck me, as I lay in bed, that we were acting foolishly; for an ancient shepherd had dropped in and taken supper with us, and foretold a heavy fall and great disaster to live stock. It was three-score years agone,* he said; and cause he had to remember it, inasmuch as two of his toes had been lost by frost-nip, while he dug out his sheep on the other side of the Dunkery.
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