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Frank went to the fo'castle hatch, and stooping down saw the captain apply the fire to a great heap of bedding. "That will do, Hawkins," he said. "Come up at once with the men, or you will be suffocated down there." They ran up on deck, and a minute later a volume of flame burst out through the hatch. Frank went to the guns, and lighting two matches gave one to Hawkins.
"Now, that's jest like you, Jerry Burgess!" exclaimed Perez disgustedly. "Want to put off and put off and put off. And the house gittin' more like the fo'castle on a cattleboat every day." "I don't b'lieve myself you'd do much better, Jerry," said Captain Eri seriously. "I like that letter somehow. Seems to me it's worth a try." "Oh, all right! Have it your own way.
The single shot which had struck the steamer had cut her two skins of steel as though they had been skins of cheese: had splintered the wood of the men's bunks, so that it lay in match-like fragments which a fine knife might have hewed; had passed again through the steel on the starboard side, and so burst, leaving the fo'castle one tumbled mass of torn blankets, little rags of linen, fragments of wood, of steel, of clothes which had been in the men's chests; and, more horrible to recount, particles of human flesh.
Daylight had come, and Denman could see Florrie, still seated in the deck chair, looking forward with frightened eyes. "Jenkins, step here a moment," said Sampson; "and you other fellows keep back." Jenkins drew near. "Did you hear, in the fo'castle," Sampson went on, "what I said about Mr.
"All right; let's see you swim, English!" jeered the cutter's captain, and the pilot took the water with a splash. "Ah su-ah am English!" he vowed, as he swam for the shore, and he stood by the sea's edge repeating his assertion with a leathery pair of lungs until the cutter had rowed out of ear-shot. "English, is he?" said Joe Byng to Curley Crothers in the fo'castle, not twenty minutes later.
His face smoothed its troubled frowns into a look of shining anticipation the look that Samuel's face had worn when first he ushered Blossy into his tidy, little home and murmured huskily: "Mis' Darby, yew're master o' the vessel naow; I'm jest fo'castle hand."
The Frenchman's left arm had coiled the fellow round the waist. Our leader's pistol flashed a circle that drove the rabble back, and the ringleader went hurling head foremost through the main hatch with force like to flatten his skull to a gun-wad. There was a mighty scattering back to the fo'castle then, I promise you. Pierre Radisson uttered never a syllable. He pointed to the fore scuttle.
They signal me to lie to me that has the mails and a hundred thousand pounds in specie aboard; they fire a shot across my bows, and when I signal that I'll see them in hell before I bate a knot, why you watched it yourselves they struck me in the fo'castle, and there's two of my dead men below now; but they shall swing" and he brought his fist upon the table with a mighty thud "they shall swing, if there's only one rope in Europe."
The roar of the wind through the rigging came to the ear muffled like the distant rumble of a train crossing a trestle or the surf on the beach, while the loud crash of the seas on her weather bow seemed almost to rend the beams and planking asunder as it resounded through the fo'castle.
Anderson himself holds the wheel. He has put the helm up, and soon the great ship, with swelling sails, breaks out of the current. He feels the change in an instant; the hands know it too. But the danger is not past. Leaving the wheel to another, he runs quickly forward to lean over the weather-rail. As he passes through the crowd on the fo'castle, the poor fellows cheer him ringingly.
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