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Updated: May 23, 2025
Hard up, now! and ring down for full speed! 'Full speed! I grunted, yet pressing on the wheel all the time 'It's stop her you mean, and anchor. 'What, here? with Hell-deeps on your starboard bow and a five-knot tide running!
But that had happened on one of the outermost reefs, beyond the Off Islands, far down by the Monk Light. How the Milo, no matter from what quarter approaching, had threaded her way by the Hell-deeps was to him a mystery of mysteries.
"He picked her up not twenty furlongs from Hell-deeps after she had missed the Little Meadows by the skin of her teeth." "How in the name of good Providence she got near enough to miss it, being where she was, is the marvel to me," said another. "She did, anyway," said the coxswain; "for Reub himself called down the news to me in so many words."
"The Hell-deeps ... and at anchor in the Roads?" she repeated stupidly. "Oh, will someone kindly tell me whether I am standing on my head or my heels! A large liner? the thing's impossible! And in a fog that thick you couldn't see your hand before your face!" "Are you quite sure, ladies," asked the Commandant, still gravely, "that you are not exaggerating the thickness of the fog, somewhat?"
"'The Monk! We cried this out together; for that we had passed the Monk without sighting her or catching sound of her fog-horns was a thing incredible. "'But so it is, said she. 'We have passed the Monk; passed it close. Don't I know the Pope's Head on Lesser Teague? Now hard-a-port still for we've the Gunnel Dogs somewhere there to leeward, and they're worse almost than Hell-deeps.
"As for that," the Commandant answered gravely, "I am happy to tell you there has been no wreck. True, a vessel in distress a large liner had found herself among the Hell-deeps, of all abominably awkward places. But by the mercy of Heaven she managed to extricate herself, and has dropped anchor, not half an hour ago, in the Roads." Miss Gabriel stared.
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