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Eph Somers turned around to face him with a good deal of a glare. "What ails you, Truax? You heard the captain's order. You'll go with me." "Don't be too sure of that," uttered Sam Truax, defiantly. "If you don't go above with me, and if you don't follow every order you get aboard this boat, I know where you will go," muttered decisively. "Where?" jeered Sam.
Eph looked briefly, then chuckled: "Must be thousands of people over yonder, wondering what on earth has happened to us!" "Do you make out the gunboat, at anchor to the north of the hotel section?" inquired Captain Jack. "Oh, yes. Say, they'll have an awakening on that gray craft, won't they?" "If we don't make any slip in our calculations," answered Benson, gravely.
And, in this last instance, he drags even the quiet Mr. Hastings into the affair with him.” “I see that I’ll have to wait, sir,” sighed Eph, resignedly. “Yes; it will be better in every way to wait,” agreed the lieutenant commander. “It is plain justice, at the least, to wait and give the young men a chance to offer any defense that they can.”
Why, I wouldn't have missed this for anything!" And there came a knock at the door. Even Eph looked a trifle blank at this. If it should be company! "Come in!" he called. The door was pushed aside and a big, steaming platter entered. It was upheld by a small boy, who stammered diffidently, "My moth-moth-mother thaid she wanted you to try thum of her nith turkey."
It was Eph with a letter and the information that Redwheels had shed a bolt in its flight last night. I settled the bolt question with a quarter and turned to the letter. It was from Peter, and I knew by the amount of ink splashed all over the envelope that it must contain a high explosive splashed on the inside.
I come now to speak a little to the other part of sanctification, which concerneth the change of our nature and frame, and is called vivification, or quickening of the new man of grace; which is called the new man, as having all its several members and parts, as well as the old man; and called new, because posterior to the other; and after regeneration is upon the growing hand, this duty of growing in grace, as it is called, 2 Pet. iii. &c. is variously expressed and held forth to us in Scripture; for it is called "an abiding and bringing forth fruit in Christ," John xv. 5; "adding to faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge," 2 Pet. i. 5, 6, 7; "a going on to perfection," Heb. vii. 1; "a growing up in Christ in all things," Eph. iv. 15; "a working out our salvation," Phil. ii. 12; "a perfecting of holiness," 2 Cor. vii. 1; "a walking in newness of life," Rom. vi. 4; "a yielding of ourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto God," Rom. vi. 13, 18; "a bringing forth fruit unto God," Rom, vii. 4; "a serving in newness of spirit," Rom. vii. 6; "a being renewed in the spirit of our minds, and a putting on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness," Eph. iv. 23,24.
By the time that Eph had cast loose from moorings Jack signaled for slow speed ahead, and the grim-looking little Benson moved on out of the harbor. Once out of the harbor Captain Jack rang, successively, for two higher speeds. The "Benson" answered both like a charm. "The gasoline part of the craft is working all right," declared the youthful skipper to Eph, who had come up into the tower.
"How did you feel?" asked Eph, quickly. "Tired, most of the time," replied Andrews. "Sick some of the time, and hungry the rest." "But about being scared?" insisted Eph. "I was kept too busy, generally, to have any time to give to being scared. I was a soldier, and a soldier is a good deal like any other workman. He does his work by habit, and soon gets over thinking much about it."
We fit 'em awful, before we give away, and they'd killed Burt Dolson and Bob Whittyker, and I don't know how many more. They come bulgin' right on toward the mill, arter they'd reformed. I know hit, bekase Eph and me staid and watched 'em, and shot at 'em, till we thought hit best to run back and warn ye." "Ye wuz in a powerful hurry to warn us," sneered the other.
What's the course?" demanded Eph Somers. Benson glanced at his watch, then up at the sun. "It'll be dark in about an hour and half," he muttered. "Why not wait until dark? We can't have been seen from any of the villages yet. Looking out over the water you don't see a craft of any sort headed away from here.
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