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Updated: June 29, 2025
"A creature like that doesn't see or hear a thing." The colonel glared at Webster, and then noisily mixed his drink. Harryman and Parrington walked along the quay in silence, their steps resounding loudly in the stillness of the night.
Parrington stood still. "Harryman," he said, repeating his former question, "do you believe there is danger " "I don't know, I really don't know," said Harryman nervously. Then, seizing Parrington's hands, he continued hurriedly, but in a low voice: "For days I have been living as if in a trance.
" All the more violent considering the fact that we noticed nothing of it on land," said Harryman, thoughtfully blowing out a cloud of smoke and swinging himself up backward on the window-sill. "Exactly," rang out a voice; "but how do you account for that?" "Account for it!" cried Colonel Webster, in a thundering voice.
Lieutenant Parrington, officer in command of the little gunboat Mindoro, which had been captured from the Spaniards some years ago and since the departure of the cruiser squadron for Mindanao been put in commission as substitute guardship in the harbor of Manila, entered the room and dropped into a chair near Harryman; whereupon the Chinese boy, almost inaudible in his broad felt shoes, suddenly appeared beside him and set down the bottle with the pain expeller of the tropics before him.
Harryman experienced an unpleasant feeling of momentary discomfort, but, not being able to locate his ideas clearly, he irritably gave up the attempt to arrive at a solution of this instinctive sensation, mumbling to himself: "This tropical hell is enough to set one crazy." "No news of the fleet, either?" began Colonel McCabe again. "Positively nothing, either by wire or wireless.
The colonel pressed down the ashes in his pipe with his thumb, and asked indifferently: "You understand Japanese?" "Tagala also," supplemented Harryman simply. "And you mean to say that thousands ?" "Millions of these pictures, with Japanese and Malayan text, are being circulated in the Philippines," said Harryman positively. "Under our eyes?" asked a lieutenant naïvely.
"Do you think," asked Colonel McCabe, "that the supposed Japanese plan of attack on the Philippines, published at the beginning of the year in the North China Daily News, was authentic?" "That question cannot be answered unless you know who gave the document to the Shanghai paper, and what object he had in doing so," replied Harryman. "How do you mean?"
"The news being of especial interest to this archipelago, where we have the misfortune to be and where we noticed nothing of the whole affair," returned Harryman. "You don't mean to imply," broke in the colonel, "that the news of this catastrophe is a pure invention an invention of the English papers in Hong-Kong?" "Don't know, I'm sure," said Harryman. "Hong-Kong papers are no criterion for me."
Harryman looked musingly after the boat of the Mindoro for a few minutes, and murmured: "He certainly has no fever which quinine will not cure." Then he got into his own boat, which also soon disappeared into the sultry summer night, while the dark water splashed and gurgled against the planks.
The distance between the two ships slowly diminished. "Yes, it is the Japanese steamer," said Parrington to himself. "And now to avenge Harryman! There'll be no sentimentality; we'll shoot them down like pirates! No signal, no warning nothing, nothing!" he murmured.
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