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She showed no colors, but the old islander, once a whaler, declared that she was a British man-o'-war. But where was Jim?
"I'm not so sure o' that," said he; "if she's a whaler like the one we came south in, lad, she'll not trouble herself with us." Billy looked very grave, and his heart sank. "My only consolation is that she looks more like a man-o'-war than a whaler."
"She can have her when she wants her, though leastways after a bit of warning. Whereas, if she was married, and the consequences a follerin' at her heels, like a man-o'-war with her convoy, she would find she was chartered for another port, she would." "Well, you see, sir, Rogers and me's not so young as we once was, and we're likely to be growing older every day.
I guess that that noise we heard crossing the channel was made by him. I think he's just doubled on us and made down for the south end of the island." Pressing her father's hand warningly, the girl fixed her dark, dreamy eyes on the officer and spoke. "Yes, that true. My brother he ran away long time before boat come up. Some one been tell him that 'Merican man-o'-war anchor down at south end.
This is no time for skylarking." The men bent to their oars again, and the boat answered to its name, cutting swiftly through the water towards the little man-o'-war. "But there will be a row about it, old fellow," whispered Bob Howlett. "Oh, very well then, they must row," said Mark Vandean pettishly. "There's no harm in having a monkey onboard if we can get it there."
The Pewit was not a dull vessel, and when we were convoyed home from Lisbon, she could keep well in sight of the frigate scudding at a distance, by putting on full sail. We had enough hands aboard to reef topsails man-o'-war fashion, which is a rare thing in these days, sir, now that able seamen are so scarce on trading craft.
"By Kin-fu-tzi!" exclaimed the admiral, a few seconds later, "that craft is very much nearer than I thought from the appearance of her rocket not more than seven miles away, at the utmost. She is a two-masted, one-funnelled steamer, and, I'm almost certain, is a man-o'-war. Now, what should she be doing just there?
I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man-o'-war fashion on board the good ship Hispaniola. "I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance; I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account, which has never been overdrawn.
The following day brought a tragedy which sank deep into Mac's heart. Out on the left flank, near where the Albion had been ashore a few mornings back, a man-o'-war had always lain since the days of the landing.
Would she ship her cargo here in the very spot that would be first visited by every man-o'-war that enters the river? Of course she wouldn't; she'd go away up the river into one of the many creeks that branch into it on either side for the first twenty miles or so, and ship her blacks there, watching for the chance of a dark night to slip out and get well off the land before daylight.
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