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The suspicions of the Tripolitans, however, were not aroused, and when they hailed the Intrepid, the pilot answered that they had lost their anchors in a gale, and asked that they might run a warp to the frigate and ride by her. While the talk went on the Intrepid's boat shoved off with the rope, and pulling to the fore-chains of the Philadelphia, made the line fast.
To be sure it's where the sail is likely to get worn, and another vessel may have had one put in like it, still, the Intrepid's foresail had just such a patch as that." "What! Do you mean to say that she's the Intrepid?" exclaimed the doctor, interrupting him. "I mean to say that she's very like her, if she's not her," answered the mate.
"Brown," he said, "did you ever see that ship before?" "Well, I was thinking that the same sail-maker cut her topsails that cut the Intrepid's; but there's no wonder in that," answered Brown. "What do you say to that white patch in the head of her foresail?" asked the mate. "It looks to me like one we put in when we were last at the Sandwich Islands.
It's been kept unusually dark. It " "Who? Who?" I demanded. "Intrepid," he answered. Intrepid that is, Langdon Mowbray Langdon! "The whole thing was planned carefully," continued Ball, "and is coming off according to schedule. Fearless overheard a final message Intrepid's brother brought from him to-day." So it was no mischance it was an assassination.
The Revenge took position on the Intrepid's lee quarter, to support her against the enemy's fire, concentrated on her when her mast was seen to fall.
An hour afterwards David the Intrepid's boat hailed the English brig, and before daybreak d'Aché was back at Mandeville, sharing with his hosts the joy he felt at the success of his voyage. They began to make plans immediately. It was decided on the spot that the Château de Monfiquet should shelter the King during the first few days after he landed.
So completely were the Tripolitans deceived that they lowered a boat and sent it with a hawser, while at the same time some of the Intrepid's crew leisurely ran a fast to the frigate's fore-chains. As these returned they met the enemy's boat, took its rope, and passed it into their own vessel.
Satisfied that the work was thoroughly done, the Americans leaped upon the Intrepid's deck, cut with swords and axes the hawsers lashing them to the Philadelphia, manned the sweeps, and, just as the flames were scorching their own yards and bulwarks, swung clear.
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