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It was then with great disappointment that the jackies saw the prow of the corvette turned homeward, after a cruise that would bring them neither honor nor prize-money. The passage homeward was quickly made, and on the 16th of August the vessel was in soundings off the coast of Maine. Night fell, with a dense fog concealing all landmarks from view.
"Do you know where the water works are?" asked the officer to whom Billie gave his order. "Yes, sir!" "Then lead us to it." Without a word Billie obeyed and the Jackies followed on the run. The information was evidently received none too soon, for they encountered quite a force of Mexicans, guarding the works.
I hate it!" he cried, "I hate to think that a billionaire, with a pull at Washington, can turn our Jackies into Janissaries. Protect American interests!" he exclaimed, indignantly, "protect American sharpers! The Isthmian Line has no more right to the protection of our Navy than have the debtors in Ludlow Street Jail."
A band of thirty pieces furnished the music, and in the opinion of the jackies one feature alone was lacking to make the entertainment a complete success the new drop-curtain had failed to arrive from London.
"What are you going to do, Margaret?" cried Mrs. Dan, her eyes wide with amazement. "I am going to marry the Son of the Prophet," she replied so decidedly that every one gasped. A moment later she was surrounded by a group of excited women, and Captain Perry was calling the "jackies" forward in a voice of thunder. Brewster pushed his way to her side, his face as white as death.
Carmody, "for we shall hope to meet you and your splendid boat-crew again." At that the jackies on the forecastle set up a tremendous cheering. Not until Dave had gone off duty did another launch put out from the "Long Island." That craft bore to one of the docks two metal caskets.
We steamed on up the bay and through the Narrows, the happiest lot of Jackies afloat. The captain of every vessel we met pulled his whistle cord until the steam gave out, and the passengers cheered and waved their handkerchiefs, or whatever came handy. The health officer passed us in a jiffy, and before eight bells struck we were safely at anchor off Tompkinsville.
Reardon was quite sure he despised Englishmen; yet the tears came to his eyes when the jackies carried poor little Riggins away from the searchlight, and he prayed for eternal rest for the soul of his late assistants, for he had learned in a night, as he fought with tooth and fist and monkey wrench, what those who fight with tongue and typewriter will never learn that racial and religious animosities are just a pitiful human bugaboo in bulk.
The sailors all saluted Simile as he appeared, and in another moment boom, bang, and the band burst out with the big drum in full swing, with the men, fourteen of them, all marching in time. The faces of our Samoans were stricken with amazement as the jackies marched up to the lawn in the blazing sun and finished the piece.
The jackies having shore leave were most picturesque, and, alas, hot as well, in their blue flannel suits, with the round sailor cap set at a jaunty angle on their heads; while the Signal Corps soldiers and hospital men in fresh khaki, the officers in crisp duck, and the women freshly starched and ironed, gave a holiday aspect even beyond that of the fluttering flags aloft, as the ship had been dressed both on Chrismas Day and New Year's, although the work had gone on with unabated energy.
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