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However fast she is, she ought not to gain a knot and a half an hour, in this breeze and, if we are five or six miles ahead when it gets dark, we can change our course. There is no moon." They were not long below. "The lugger is under sail again, sir," the second mate, who was on duty, said as they gained the deck. "They haven't been long getting up a jury mast," Captain Lockett said.
Johnny Lockett was not very popular with his superiors after that and I believe he went back to driving the internal gharri. I think it was about July or August 1945 that I was transferred to Egypt, anyway while we were in transit we read that the Americans had dropped a super bomb on Japan and the consensus among us was, "There they go, bragging again," and we put it out of our minds.
"Very jolly, Gerald; first rate. Captain Lockett was as kind as could be; and the first mate was very good, too, though I did not think he would be, when I first saw him; and Joe Lockett, the second mate, is a capital fellow." "But how was it that you did not take that French privateer, Bob?
There is a heavy swell sets in here, when the wind is from the east with a bit south in it, and they run up there for shelter." Captain Lockett now came up on deck. "Good morning, Bob! I did not see you here, when watch was changed." "No, sir, I wasn't woke; but I mean to be up another morning." "That is right, Bob. Joe and I agreed to give you an extra hour, this morning.
The brig had been thrown up into the wind as soon as the polacre's sails had been lowered and, in three minutes, a boat came alongside. Then Joe Lockett, followed by half a dozen sailors armed with pistol and cutlass, scrambled on board. "Now, follow me, Amy," and, descending the ladder, Bob made his way along the narrow gangway between the lines of cattle, and then mounted to the poop.
He found all hands busy, bending on sails in place of those that had been damaged, taking those of the brig first captured for the purpose. "They fit very well," Joe Lockett said, "and we have not time to lose. We sail again, this afternoon.
I hope you will get a share of the prize money." "I only count as a hand," Bob said, laughing; "and I am sure that is as much as I deserve. "But here comes the captain, sir. He will tell you more about it." Captain Lockett now came on board; and Bob, seeing that he was not farther required, went off with Jim down to the cockpit. The captain had a long talk with Captain Lockett.
His uncle has retired, and bought a place near Southampton, and settled down there. Young Lockett came up from Portsmouth by the night coach. He put in at Gibraltar on his way home, and the 58th were to embark three days after he left. So if you want to meet them when they arrive at Cork, you had better lose no time; but start by the night coach for Bristol, and cross in the packet from there."
Among the privateers was the Antelope, which was one of those that had come in on the previous afternoon. Bob had not heard of her arrival, when he ran against Captain Lockett in the town, next morning. They had not met since Bob had landed, six months before. "Well, Master Repton," the captain said, after they had shaken hands, "I was coming up to see you, after I had managed my business.
The next morning Bob packed his trunks, the first thing; then he went round to the professor's, and told him that he was going away, for a fortnight or so, for a cruise; then he went down to the port, and met Joe Lockett when he landed, and brought him up to breakfast, as had been arranged with the captain the night before.
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