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"In with it, then," said the captain. "I wish both of 'em 'd knock out a stick or two. It'd be a good thing for us." At all events, a lame horse is not likely to win a race, and the Goshhawk was doing as well as were either of the others.
Besides, if she were, indeed, to become a prize, no sound-minded sea-captain could be willing to shoot away her selling value or that of her cargo. Noon came, and there did not appear to be any important change in the relative positions of the two ships. At times, indeed, the Goshhawk had gained a quarter-mile or so, but only to lose it again, as is apt to be the case in ocean races.
Both range and distance had been well calculated, for an iron messenger, ordering the Goshhawk to heave to, fell into the water within a hundred yards of her stern. "That's near enough for the present," said the American commander, but Captain Kemp exclaimed, in astonishment: "They are firing on the British flag, are they? Then there is something up that we don't know anything about.
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