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"Stop! Come back!" His shrill voice carried above the terrifying noise. "It's the plates bucklin' between the ribs." "Plates! Hell! she's breakin' up!" Neville rushed in from the engine-room. "Back to your fires, men, or we'll all drown! Steam, keep up " He was shouting at full-lung power, but his cries were cut short. Again the deafening reports started at the bows.
It would be a delightful occupation to restore harmony to these shelves and lockers, to bring order and neatness out of the confusion which reigned in every part of the steamer. When he had completed his survey, he went to the engine-room, and offered his services to Ethan for duty in his department.
With the roustabout crew that had been shipped in New York from a West Street boarding-master it took some time to get the anchor broken out the men going at their work sulkily. At last, however, it was "up and down" as the sailors say, and Luther Barr himself signaled on the engine-room telegraph "Full speed, ahead."
At least the vessel in which you sailed has never been heard of, and the last time I saw your family, not four months since, they had all gone into mourning for you." "Poor mother!" murmured Robin, his eyes filling with tears, "but, please God, we shall meet again before long." "Come come down with me to the engine-room and have a talk about it," said Frank, "and let your friends come too."
But while the torpedo boat, deprived of the drag of her propeller, continued to forge strongly ahead under the impetus of her own momentum, the Thetis was even more rapidly widening the distance between herself and the torpedo boat by going full speed astern, until, when the two craft were separated by some three miles of heaving water, the perplexed and astounded Spanish lieutenant, still ignorant of what had happened, made up his mind to go back to see what the English ship was about, and, ordering his helm to be put hard over, rang down to his engine-room for "full speed ahead". Then the furious racing of his engines, as steam was admitted into the cylinders, revealed the ghastly truth that he had lost his propeller and was absolutely helpless, with the nearest land fully forty miles away.
Old Hughie Cameron visited the mill several evenings, and Silas Long carried his telescope down to the engine-room door, and strove to introduce the strange man to the joys of star-gazing. Even the minister, grieved at his former harshness, paid him a second visit. But all alike were repulsed. John McIntyre would accept kindness from no man, and one by one they were forced to leave him to himself.
As he ceased speaking a man dived down through the tiny engine-room hatch, and presently reappeared, bearing in his hands two large files. "We have these, senor," he whispered excitedly to Jim; "they were brought on board this morning from the Blanco, when I was doing some repairs to the engines, and I forgot to take them back before we started. How will they do?"
Some unscrewed deck valves over the burning hold, fastening thereto the ends of seven-inch rubber hose; while below, the engine-room staff, with soldierly precision, attached the other ends to the boilers and stood like statues until a signal gong sounded through the black depth.
"I'll get them, and, remember, you and the rest are to stay away from the after end of the boat." Forsythe made no answer as Jenkins passed him on the way aft, but muttered: "Eat me alive? We'll see." Riley, one of the machinists, appeared from the engine-room hatch and came forward, halting before Forsythe.
After four hours of this furious work, the piston-rod suddenly slipped, and the piston rose with a jerk, knocking one or two men over into the engine-room. But when Mr. Wardrop declared that the piston had not split, they cheered, and thought nothing of their wounds; and the donkey-engine was hastily stopped; its boiler was nothing to tamper with.
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