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Besides, you can see for yourself that that steamer is settling down by the head as fast as she can." Captain Horn was now almost as much excited as the unfortunate commander of the Dunkery Beacon. "Where's that gold?" he cried. "Where is it stowed?" "It is in the forward hold, with a lot of cargo on top of it!" groaned Captain Hagar. Shirley now spoke again. "Don't think about the gold!" he said.
When Shirley reached the counting-house of Beaver & Hughes, he found that it was a great advantage to be backed up by a pair of reverend clergymen, who had come to Kingston in a handsome yacht. The message for Captain Hagar was delivered without hesitation, and the best wishes were expressed that they might be able to overtake the Dunkery Beacon.
If you are thinking about your crew, Captain, I want to say that so far as I am concerned, I am one volunteer!" "And I am another!" said Mr. Litchfield. "Now that I know how absolutely essential it is that the Dunkery Beacon should be overtaken, I would not for a moment even consider the surrender of my position upon this vessel, which I assure you, madam, I consider as an honor!" Mr.
If he should reach them, not only would he be saved, but they could steam away to peace and safety. On swam Shirley, evenly and steadily, until he had nearly passed half the distance between the two vessels, when suddenly a knot of men were seen looking over the rail of the Dunkery. Then there was a commotion. Then a man was seen standing up high, a gun in his hand.
"I want to send a boat aboard with an important message from Blackburn!" After a few minutes the answer came, "Send a boat!" Orders were given to lower one of the yacht's boats, and it was agreed that Shirley ought to be the man to go over to the Dunkery Beacon. "Who do you want to go with you?" asked Burke. "Nobody but the boat's crew," he answered. "I can explain things better by myself.
He could not comprehend the state of affairs. What was the Dunkery Beacon doing down south, when by this time she ought to be far away to the east, if she were running away with the treasure, and what were those two other vessels keeping so close to her? He could not imagine what they could be, unless, indeed, they were her pirate consorts.
I think it won't be long before she lays to just to see what we want." Sure enough, in less than fifteen minutes the Dunkery Beacon signalled that she would lay to, and before long the two vessels, their engines stopped and their heads to the wind, lay rising and falling on the waves, and near enough to speak to each other. "Now, then, what do you want?" shouted the Captain of the Dunkery.
The breakfast, which was in course of preparation, was almost entirely forgotten by those who had it in charge, and everybody who could possibly leave duty crowded to the rail, peering across the waves to the southward. It was not long before Shirley, who had the best eyes on board, declared that he could read with his glass the name Dunkery Beacon on the port bow.
But there was no need even for Burke to draw a bead on a pirate head, for now not a man could be seen on the Dunkery Beacon. They had evidently been so surprised and astounded by a volley of rifle shots from this pleasure yacht, which they had supposed to be as harmless as a floating log, that every man on deck had crouched behind the bulwarks.
In fact, there were those who said that had the Dunkery Beacon safely arrived in the port of Callao, the whole of the continent of South America might have been disturbed and disrupted by the immense over-balance of wealth thrown into the treasury of one of its states. It is true that Mrs. Cliff's plans and purposes did not entirely pass without criticism.
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