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Updated: May 10, 2025
That there is a tide in the affairs of men, has very naturally become a figure of frequent and almost hackneyed use in the cockpits, gun-rooms, and even the captains' cabins of our ships and vessels of war.
Buckets of fresh water for the use of thirsty and wounded men were placed in convenient positions round the decks; and lastly, all the lighter and loose furnishings in the cabins, ward-rooms, and gun-rooms were taken down and put out of the way, to avoid their being smashed through the terrific vibration when the great guns began to fire.
The Japanese servant, whose station was at the forward-turret ammunition-hoist, reported the service of the whisky to his mates, and from here the news spread as news will in a cellular hull up to turrets and gun-rooms, through speaking-tubes and water-tight bulkheads, down to stoke-hold, engine-rooms, and steering-room; and long before Captain Blake had thought of taking a drink the whole ship's company was commenting, mentally and openly, and more or less profanely, on the story that "the old man was getting drunk in the conning-tower."
There will be no hitch," said the horseman in low tones. "You have seen Spantz?" "Sh! No names. Yes. The girl is ready." "And the fortress?" "Fifty men are in the houses opposite and others will go there later on." "We must keep the reserves out of the fortress. It would mean destruction if they got to the gun-rooms and the ammunition houses." "Is he here?" with a motion toward the upper window.
"It is still thawing, and the ground will be very sloshy; I hope you have got thick boots." "Yes, and if I hadn't I do not mind a little wet," replied Crawley. "But I can't find my gun anywhere." "Oh, that is all right in the gun-room." This was another new idea to Crawley, who previously thought that it was only ships in Her Majesty's navy, and not houses, that had gun-rooms.
"Yes, it did, and no one could have been more surprised than I when I saw the answering puff of smoke." "How came a cannon to be there?" "Nobody knows. I suppose that rock in the Baltic is a concealed fort, with galleries and gun-rooms cut in the stone after the fashion of our defences at Gibraltar.
It had originally been the crypt of the Saxon castle which had once stood on the site where the moat-house was built, and was entered by a short flight of steps not far from the passage which led to the housekeeper's rooms. It was rectangular in shape, and, like the majority of gun-rooms in old English country mansions, contained a large assortment of ancient and modern weapons.
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