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In other words, when Harrigan came among them, they felt hope, and when a man has hope, he will work on in the face of death. And at last McTee came up and begged Harrigan to go back. He went, and found an empty fireroom and dying fires. He ran back to the deck, and at his shout the dead veritably rose to life. Men staggered to their feet to follow him below. Every man on the ship took his turn.
"Hold on, Ned, wait till I get through. The captain was bully. So was everybody else. I went to him soon as we were outside Sandy Hook and asked for a job. I was independent about it. I believe I offered to swim ashore if he didn't happen to have a job for me. He gave me an easy one, for a boy, but I struck and asked for a man's work, and got it in the fireroom.
"I'm glad you didn't tell me his record," she answered. "I can read it in his eyes." "Lady," said Harrigan, and his head tilted back till the cords stood strongly out at the base of his throat, "I'm afther askin' your pardon for thinkin' ye had ever a dr-rop av hot Irish blood in ye." "Take him below, bos'n," broke in McTee, "and put him in on the night shift in the fireroom."
Harrigan stared at him, baffled by the sudden change of the conversation. "It is cool," he assented. "But in the fireroom it's hotter than it's been at any time since the Heron started on this trip. The second assistant came up to complain to Henshaw, and I heard them. "'There's something wrong with the air shafts, he said to White Henshaw.
The Stevens brothers exerted their influence also on naval construction. A double invention of Robert and Edwin, the forced draft, to augment steam power and save coal, and the air-tight fireroom, which they applied to their own vessels, was afterwards adopted by all navies. Robert designed and projected an ironclad battleship, the first one in the world.
"What will ye hae?" he roared, continuing the dialect which the song had freshened on his tongue. "The shift in the fireroom is short-handed," said the voice. "That fellow Harrigan has not shown up. Shall we search for him?" "Search for the de'il!" thundered Campbell. "Harrigan is doing a fine piece of work for me; shall I let him go to the fireroom to swing a shovel?"
I made him scrub down the bridge with suds every morning, and while his hands were puffed and soft, I sent him down to the fireroom to pass coal." "He'll kill you someday." "If he can." They smiled strangely at each other. A knock came at the door, and Salvain entered, radiant. "She is divine!" he cried. "Her hair is old copper with golden lights.
"I never thought I would live to see the like of that!" "But how does he keep her engines going? The fireroom crew must know what has happened," I said. "What's left of 'em do," said Riggs. "He's likely got a few men below who think they will get a share of the loot if they keep up steam.
Now get down to the fireroom. I've had Henshaw prepare the chief engineer for your coming." Harrigan turned. "Wait! Remember when you're in hell that the old compact still holds. Your hand in mine and a promise to be my man will end the war." Only the low laughter of the Irishman answered as he made his way down to the deck.
He took a long look at Henshaw, and then he went out with his head down." "What did it all mean?" asked Harrigan. "I don't know. I don't dare think what it means. But if my guess is right, then the Heron is a lot nearer hell than even you and I expected. Look, there goes Fritz Klopp, the first assistant engineer. I'll wager he's got another complaint about the heat in the fireroom."
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