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'Still the fog's our best friend, he continued, 'and we have plenty of time before us. If we average no more than half-speed we should be clear before daylight. For another twenty minutes they carried on at full speed through the choking smother, then Captain Carrington rang to reduce speed. 'We're off Gallipoli now, he said.
We passed Holyhead at 9:00 o'clock, and Liverpool came into sight at 1:30 p.m. An hour later we came so near to the coast that the individual trees of a shady wood upon the shores could readily he discerned. By 3:25 we had entered the Mersey, and "half-speed" was ordered. Five minutes later, we anchored and were touched by a tender. Here we learned what custom-house officers are for.
Our engines were slowed down to half-speed, or just enough to give her steerage way, while the anxious captain peered from the wheelhouse with one hand grasping the signal cord, ready for any emergency.
"All this coming and going in crowded streets, all this fighting for bread, and scheming over pennies child's play. Less than that the blind swarming of ants! Tomorrow, where will all this be, for us?" He turned back and thrust over the spokes. The launch drew in toward the Jersey shore. "Let the engines run at half-speed," he directed, "and control her now with the clutch." "Yes, sir!"
Seeing that the Agnes and Mary had no steerage way, the captain stopped his engines for a few minutes, and then went ahead again at half-speed. This brought the vessels close together, and, as is the invariable custom in such circumstances, the two crews stared stonily at each other. On the deck were one or two passengers enjoying the morning air after a cramped and uncomfortable night.
The steamers slowed to half-speed, the flats were made fast alongside by cables, and nimble negroes transferred the wood, while the race went on. At every riverside town the wharves and roofs would be black with people, awaiting the two rivals, whose appearance could be foretold almost as exactly as that of a railway train running on schedule time.
In accordance with the Admiral's instructions, the Yakumo was to lead the way to sea, and it was a proud moment for me when, standing upon the cruiser's navigating bridge, I personally rang down the order to the engine-room, "Ahead, half-speed, both engines!"
In the black night, threading the crooked and ever-changing channel of the Mississippi River, it was impossible to go more than half-speed. In the bow men were stationed casting the lead, and calling out the soundings to the brave old Capt. Hoel, who stood on the upper deck unprotected from the storm of bullets, and repeated the soundings to Capt. Walker.
Death cannot touch communion, and the consciousness of communion with God is the earnest of the inheritance. It is so for another reason also. All the results of the Divine Spirit's sealing of the soul are manifestly incomplete, and as manifestly tend towards completeness. The engine is clearly working now at half-speed. It is obviously capable of much higher pressure than it is going at now.
"What do you want me to do?" asked Captain Marsh. "This is a navigable river, isn't it?" replied Orde. "Run through!" Marsh rang for half-speed and began to nose his way gently through the loosely floating logs. Soon the tug had reached the scene of activity, and headed straight for the slender line of booms hitched end to end and stretching quite across the river.
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