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It looked as if she had crossed the shoal and Lister let go the wheel and got his breath. He had used no effort, but he gasped and his hand shook. The gong signaled half-speed, and when he slowed his engines the roar of escaping steam pierced the turmoil of the surf. This was significant, because he could not have heard the steam a few minutes earlier.
The truth is that one must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad." "Live at half-speed," I murmured perversely. "Not everybody can do that." "You'll be glad enough presently if you can keep going even at that rate," he retorted with his air of conscious virtue.
The ratio of the gearing that is, the speed of the air-screw relatively to that of the engine, could be chosen so as to suit exactly the requirements of the air-screw, and the gearing itself, on this engine, was accomplished on the half-speed shaft actuating the valves.
Two will run half-speed or a little better, and one will do a little." "One remains dead?" "Yes, sir. But we can repair that on the way. Rudders and propellers will do. Helicopters O.K." "And floats?" "Both aft floats repaired, sir. One is cut down a third, and one a half, but they will serve." "How about petrol?" the Master demanded.
But with the distance, the uncertain light, and the curtain of mist that was thickening between us, my eyes might have deceived me, and I omitted to mention my suspicions to Mrs. Knapp. When the mist and darkness had blotted out shore, wharves and shipping, the tug moved at half-speed down the channel.
Deep in the iron chambers below, Edgar Berrington stood not in his wonted dreamy mood, beside the great crank, but close to the steering-wheel of the engine, alert, steady, with his hand on the wheel, his eye on the index. Suddenly the order came, "Half-speed," then abruptly followed, "Stop." These orders were obeyed instantly. The lead was hove the result, "no bottom at thirty fathoms."
The cable ferry towed us out beyond the gravel bars that, during the last week, had been slowly lifting their bleached masses higher. In mid-stream we cut loose. At the first turn the engine started. We were going at a good half-speed clip, when suddenly the engine changed its mind. "Squash!" it said wearily. Then it let off a gasoline sigh and went into a peaceful sleep.
Topper was actually indulging in a wink. After a time, he reappeared on deck, walked aft, and said: "Fog-horn don't seem nowheres about, Skipper. Thought you always kept her in your charge." Cap'n Pigg whisked the wheel round just in time to escape a tug, fussing up-stream, and feeling her way through the fog at half-speed, and then he grunted sourly: "So I do.
Long they lingered over the table and laughter, jest and song and story enlivened the hours that came to an end at last, and Pancha stole her little hand within Loring's arm for the last starlight walk along the now familiar decks, and lo, when they issued from the brightly-lighted saloon the stars were gone, the steamer was forging ahead through a chill mist that grew thicker with every moment, and as half-speed was ordered and the mournful notes of the whistle groaned out throbbingly over the leaden sea, she swayed uneasily over a heavy ground swell that careened her deeper and deeper as the mist thickened to fog, and oilskins and sou'westers came out and dark figures went dripping about the decks, and Loring fetched his uniform cape from below and muffled in it Pancha's slender form, and for awhile they tottered up and down, then abandoned the attempt to walk, and settled in their chairs at the end of the bench, just where she had sat and clung to the white stanchion and sobbed her heart out that night in Guaymas Bay.
'That saves two days. He gave the horses the whip again, and I started for Huntington's to tell you Watch out! There's the turn!" he shouted in Hillyer's ear. The wheels tore up the sand as the machine, with the power off but still going at more than half-speed under its momentum, skidded and scraped around the turn into Haig's road. "Now!" cried Marion.
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