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"The forward eccentric-strap screw's dropped off," said the engineer, investigating. "That all? I thought it was a propeller-blade." "We must go an' look for it. There isn't another." "Not me," said Pyecroft from his seat. "Out pinnace, Hinch, an' creep for it. It won't be more than five miles back." The two men, with bowed heads, moved up the road. "Look like etymologists, don't they?
Fred and the young surgeon, too, worked like the rest, with their coats off, handkerchiefs bound round their heads, and shirt-sleeves tucked up to their shoulders. At last the tide rose inch by inch, and slowly, as if it grudged to give them even a chance of escape. Mivins grew impatient and unbelieving under it. "I don't think it'll rise another hinch," he remarked to O'Riley, who stood near him.
The bosun and I might ha' searched for that there rock till all was blue, and never ha' found it; but you comes along and gets aboard of us eight hunderd mile away, and says you `we'll sight Saint Paul as we runs down our eastin''; and, although we've been headin' all round the compass since then, there's the hiland, right enough, and just where you said it would be, ay, to the very hinch."
Try it, sir, see if it will move a hinch." I tried the port, and found it perfectly tight. "Well, sir," continued Robert, triumphantly, "I wager my reputation as a A1 steward, that in 'arf an hour it will be open again; fastened back, too, sir, that's the horful thing fastened back!" I examined the great screw and the looped nut that ran on it.
"She's the Poetry o' Motion! She's the Angel's Dream. She's " He shut off steam, and the slope being against her, the car slid soberly downhill again. "What's this? I've got the brake on!" he yelled. "It doesn't hold backwards," I said. "Put her on the mid-link." "That's a nasty one for the chief engineer o' the Djinn, 31-knot, T.B.D.," said Pyecroft. "Do you know what the mid-link is, Hinch?"
"A man," she concluded, "as I wouldn't trust, not a hinch!" "It's the man!" Hugh thought. "And he's come back, as I thought he would. Funny he should look at the cottage! Good Lord! I wonder if he has spies about here?" "Anyone else been? I suppose no one came here to ask about me, for instance, Mrs. Bonner?" "No one, sir, not a soul, no stay a moment.
"I can't leave my 'orse!" roared the carrier; "but bring 'em up 'ere, an' I'll kill 'em all over again." "Good morning, Mr. Pyecroft," I called cheerfully. "Can I give you a lift anywhere?" The attack broke up round my forewheels. "Well, we do 'ave the knack o' meeting in puris naturalibus, as I've so often said." Mr. Pyecroft wrung my hand. "Yes, I'm on leaf. So's Hinch.
Pyecroft and I and the rug marched up where she and Hinchcliffe fumed together. "Not as easy as it looks eh, Hinch?" "It is dead easy. I'm going to drive her to Instead Wick aren't I?" said the first-class engine-room artificer. I thought of his performances with No. 267 and nodded. After all, it was a small privilege to accord to pure genius. "But my engineer will stand by at first," I added.
But the Mexican officials are a rotten lot; it seemed to me best to go it alone. What I found in Ensenada was that Skeels had been there, quite publicly, under his own name; he had come alone and departed with a companion, Hinch Dial, a drill operator from the mines, a transient, a pick-up laborer, seemingly as close-mouthed as Silent Steve himself.
So many other times he remembered her throughout those years, but never as a woman faded, old; never as a woman of the past. Now that he had not got her, for the first time Mr. Pendyce realised that she had not grown old, that she was still to him "timid, and like a rose, but a lady every hinch, the love!"
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