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Updated: June 7, 2025
I've never forgotten that day, nor the figure of that shouting, swearing man who came through the Bessemer mill crying for more speed, more speed, more speed so that a broom could be hoisted on a halyard and so that other men in other cities, for one short month, could point to him with envy.
The shell soared high above the palace, passed over the cliff behind and dropped harmlessly somewhere in the sea. The Queen and Kalliope stood behind the flagstaff from which the blue banner of Salissa flew. At the sound of the shot, while the shell's shriek was still in her ears, the Queen gave her order. Kalliope, hauling hand over hand on the halyard, ran up the Stars and Stripes.
His boots would pull him under as soon as the force of the waves, that were tossing him from crest to crest, should be suspended. Rainey himself was borne on their thrust, clogged by his own equipment, linked to life only by the halyard coil. A great bulk wallowed just before him, the helpless body of the bowhead whale, the killers darting in a mad mêlée for its head.
"One thing more," said Professor Farrago, gravely; "you know, in that last paragraph of his letter, Halyard speaks of something else in the way of specimens an undiscovered species of amphibious biped just read that paragraph again, will you?"
In that comparatively brief period he had contrived not only to learn the name and function of every bit of running rigging in the ship, but also to lay his hand unerringly upon any required halyard, brace, sheet, downhaul, clewline, or other item of gear in the darkest night; he was as active and almost as handy aloft as the smartest A.B. in the ship; and he proved to be a born helmsman, standing his "trick" at the wheel from the very first, and leaving a straighter wake behind him than any of the other men, even when the ship was scudding before a heavy following sea.
A few seconds later the halyard was made fast, the sheet was trimmed aft, and the boat, with the string of seven in tow astern, began to move slowly and silently up the stream.
So stand by to let go the halyard and ship oars when I give word, amigo." "She seems very worn with her sickness, Resolution!" said I, stooping to observe Joanna where she slumbered like one utterly exhausted. "She is, friend!" he nodded.
Then, turning to me, he rasped out: "And that young lady was obliged to row all the way to Port-of-Waves and call to Lee's quarrymen to take her boat in." Completely mystified, I looked from Halyard to the girl, not in the least comprehending what all this meant. "That will do," said Halyard, ungraciously, which curt phrase was apparently the usual dismissal for the nurse.
"Indiscretion is the better part of valor," said she, dropping her head but raising her eyes. So I sat down with a frivolous smile peculiar to the appreciated. "Doubtless," said I, "you are hemming a 'kerchief." "Doubtless I am not," she said; "this is a night-cap for Mr. Halyard." A mental vision of Halyard in a night-cap, very mad, nearly set me laughing again.
He "lay out" as best he could and cast off the gaskets he knew barely enough of yachting to understand an order here and there and by the time he was back on the fo'c'sle head the Chinamen were at the jib halyard and hoisting away. "That's well, y'r jib halyards." The "Bertha Millner" veered round and played off to the wind, tugging at her anchor. "Man y'r windlass."
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