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A second attack was about to be made, when loud cries of "Fire! fire!" arose from below, and smoke and flames were seen issuing up the fore-hatchway. The danger threatening had the effect of calming the fury of the mutineers, while Mr Lawrie's earnest appeals induced them to exert themselves in putting out the flames.
Again I heard the groan. I was now sure that it was uttered by one of our shipmates. It came from a part of the deck covered by a mass of broken spars and sails and rigging. Though I could not see as far, I knew that Jim had reached the fore-hatchway by hearing him shouting and knocking with the back of the axe. "Are any of them there?" I cried out. "No! Not one, I'm afeared," he answered.
'I don't care for that, sirrah; if you don't find out by dinner-time, you're food for fishes that's all; you may go. The cook walked off wringing his hands and his nightcap as well for he still held it in his right hand and disappeared down the fore-hatchway. 'I have done this to pay you a deserved compliment, ladies; you have more courage than the other sex.
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