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I swam on board her in the dark to see if they were keeping a good watch, and that sort of thing and when I got on board, I found she was a ship of war, with a lot of heavy guns, and prepared to take us by surprise when we attacked her; so of course, when I swam back again with the news, Captain Lockett cut his cable and towed the brig out in the dark.
"It was a very foolish thing to do, and nothing will change my opinion as to that. "Captain Lockett tells me you brought Amy Harcourt back with you, dressed up as a boy. I never heard of such a thing, Bob! The idea of a boy like you not eighteen yet taking charge, in that way, of a young girl!" "Well, there was nothing else to do, Carrie, that I could see. I went to Mrs. Hamber, who was Mrs.
I am a pretty good one, myself and, as the sea is smooth, and we have a good steady platform to fire from, I have good hope we shall cripple that fellow before he comes up to us." There was more talking than usual, at breakfast. Captain Lockett and the second mate both laughed, and joked, over the approaching fight. Mr. Probert was always a man of few words, and he said but little, now.
"Hadn't I better bring the ship's papers on board with us, Captain Lockett?" "What for, Bob? I don't see that they would be any use to us, and the bills of lading will be useful for selling the cargo." "I can copy them, sir, for Mr. Crofts.
At daybreak the officers were out again, and it was found that the brig was lying within a quarter of a mile of the land, in a slight indentation of the coast. The wind had died away, and the sails were loosed, and suffered to fall against the masts. "It could not be better," Captain Lockett said.
Bob asked Joe Lockett, who was holding on to the bulwark, near him. "Yes, the bowsprit went with the strain when she rose, having buried herself halfway up the waist; and the topmast snapped like a carrot, a moment later. That was the worst dive we made.
I hope the time will come when it is considered just as disgraceful, for a man to drink, as it is for a woman. "And now, Captain Lockett, about Bob. What time must he be on board?" "He must be on board before gunfire, Mrs. O'Halloran, unless you get a special order from the town major. I was obliged to get one, myself, for this evening.
"I would rather do that, if you will let me," Captain Lockett replied. "I shall be pretty busy tomorrow, and you military gentlemen do give us such a lot of trouble in the way of papers, documents, and signatures that I never like leaving the ship, till I get rid of the last bale and box with the government brand on it." "Very well, then; we shall expect you to supper."
The oars were scarcely dipped in the water, when he heard a sudden lull in the distant talking. A minute later, it broke out again. "They have orders to pay no attention to the noises," Captain Lockett said, "so as to lead us to think that we shall take them unawares. "There, she is moving now," he added, as he looked down into the water.
She has been specially disguised, at Malaga, in hopes of tempting a craft like yours to attack her and, what is more, she has a shrewd suspicion of what you are;" and he related the whole of the conversation he had heard, and described the preparations for repulsing a boat attack and, in turn, carrying the brig in the ship's boats. Captain Lockett was thunderstruck.
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