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Updated: May 2, 2025
The fog-horn was silent: the Empress moved alongside the jetties of Calais. The gangways were let down; porters invaded the deck, carrying away luggage to the trains awaiting the travellers in the terminus station. "Now for it!" thought Juve. Once on French soil it was all up with the liberty of Corporal Vinson! His arrest would be immediate.
The next minute the cabin was filled with the dismal roaring of the fog-horn, to warn other vessels of their presence there, and, before a minute had elapsed, the Captain uttered a sharp ejaculation, and sprang to the cabin door, for a fresh roar sounded close at hand, telling that another ship was somewhere near.
Admiral Meredith was as different from Judge Bannister in his mental equipment as he was in physical appearance. He was a short little man, who walked with a sailor's swing, and who laughed like a fog-horn. He had ruddy cheeks, and the manners of a Chesterfield.
The darkness had scarcely succeeded the highly coloured sunset before the raucous booming of the fog-horn sounded from the ship's funnel, and the whole vessel was surrounded with a thick mist African breath again which, laden with damp, left everything superficially wet. The mist continued, and the darkness deepened, as we went through the Straits.
We pushed along cautiously, found the entrance to the cove we had made out before the light failed, and were about to lay to until dawn, when we saw a rocket and heard the fog-horn. That woke us up, you bet. The Chileans pulled like mad, but when we came near enough to discover that the ship was being attacked by Indians, I had a fearful job to get my heroes to butt in.
But just the same, would he really ever get to England alive? And if he did, would he have to go on holding his breath in terror for nine more days? Would the fo'c'sle always keep heaving up up up, like this, then down down down, as though it were going to sink? "How do yuh like de fog-horn, Wrennie?" Pete, the tough, spit the question up at him from a corner of his mouth.
And who was he, that stood so straight upon the quarter-deck, to instil this scum with love and worship and fervour to blind them to such odds? But the bo'suns piped and sang out the command in fog-horn voices, the drums beat the long roll and the fifes whistled, and the decks became suddenly alive.
It came again a slight hollow sound, as of a paddle scraping against a canoe. They were being followed. Had the girl heard it, too? He waited for the wail of the fog-horn to die away and found her speaking. " frank with you, Mr. Kendrick," she was saying. "The circumstances are less extraordinary than they appear to you. My husband and I were at a party at a friend's house on the Island.
Forward, the steam fog-horn was going unceasingly, bellowing like a thousand furious bulls; while, now and again, a rocket still shot up through the misty morning air. Round the boats a hideous war was being waged.
"Oh, I'd rather take it," said Susan. She kissed her cousin good-bye, gave her aunt a particularly fervent hug, and went out into the doubtful morning. The fog-horn was booming on the bay, and when Susan joined the little stream of persons filing toward the dock of the great Nippon Maru, fog was already shutting out all the world, and the eaves of the pier dripped with mist.
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