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The havoc was dreadful; more than a hundred, according to Young's account, were slain. After this signal act of vengeance, Captain Metcalf sailed from Mowee, and made for the island of Owyhee, where he was well received by Tamaahmaah. The fortunes of this warlike chief were at that time on the rise.
Metcalf scrambled out and claimed his wager; but it was with the greatest difficulty that the horse could be extricated. The blind man also played at bowls very successfully, receiving the odds of a bowl extra for the deficiency of each eye.
If no one else would join the Squire, he would! Thus enlisted perhaps carried away by his love of adventure not less than by his feeling of patriotism Metcalf proceeded to enlist others, and in two days a hundred and forty men were obtained, from whom Mr. Thornton drafted sixty-four, the intended number of his company.
All the visible light is cut out, leaving only the ultraviolet rays, and these travel as fast and as far, and return by reflection, as though accompanied by the visible rays." "But how can you see it?" asked an officer. "How is the ship it is directed at made visible?" "By fluorescence," answered Metcalf. "The observer is the periscope itself.
A small dinghy-like boat was dispatched, and it returned with the man, a Japanese in lieutenant's uniform, whose beady eyes twinkled in alarm as Metcalf greeted him. "Well, Saiksi, you perfected it, didn't you? my invisible searchlight, that I hadn't money to go on with." The Jap's eyes sought the deck, then resumed their Asiatic steadiness. "Metcalf this you," he said, "in command?
There was nothing in sight, close by, either through the periscope or by direct vision, and Metcalf decided to make for San Francisco and report. It was a wise decision, for at daylight he was floundering in a heavy sea and a howling gale from the northwest that soon forced him to submerge again for comfort.
By these means, he very shortly succeeded in realising a considerable store of savings, besides being able to maintain his family in respectability and comfort. Metcalf, however, had not yet entered upon the main business of his life. The reader will already have observed how strong of heart and resolute of purpose he was.
The battle of Culloden, so disastrous to the poor Highlanders; shortly followed; after which Captain Thornton, Metcalf, and the Yorkshire Volunteer Company, proceeded homewards.
A woman whom they met returning to Edinburgh from the field of Falkirk, laden with plunder, gave Metcalf a token to her husband, who was Lord George Murray's cook, and this secured him an access to the Prince's quarters; but, notwithstanding a most diligent search, he could hear nothing of his master.
She says Clara wasn't to blame for what happened between her and Frank Metcalf, but don't want to tell us the story, because she thinks young Metcalf wasn't to blame either." Although he had been respectful and courteous as he listened to Kate's talk, he grew angry when he tried to tell his wife what she had said. "I'm afraid it was just a lot of mixed up nonsense," he declared.
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