United States or Panama ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Bob was paralysed, and the desire was upon him to shut his eyes, and escape seeing the death of the brave old sailor, who was giving his life to save his young officer; but in place of closing his eyes, the middy felt that he was forced to hold them open, and fixed them upon the terrible scene; and his lips parted to utter a cry of warning, when, just as the third Malay was about to deliver his thrust, to avert which Dick was powerless, there was a sharp whizzing noise through the air, accompanied by a loud report, and then another whizzing, and a second report.
Five minutes later the middy shouted again: "Look here; hadn't I better come up now?" "Yes, if you like." "Is there plenty of room?" "No." "Then what's the use of my coming?" "Only to keep me company. Better still, come and give a pull at my heels." "Pull at your heels?" "Yes, it's like a chimney laid on its side, and I'm quite stuck fast."
As before, an imposing force was got ready, and once more the march to what Bob had nick-named Palm Tree Palace, took place, the middy coming afterwards to Tom Long's room, and telling him how the affair had gone off. "It was no end of a game," he said to the young ensign, who was rapidly gaining strength, the fancy that his wound was poisoned having passed away.
"Here, I'm not going to " "Hush, Jem. You'll be heard," whispered Don. "Yes, but lookye here." There was no time to say more. The first lieutenant of the ship, with a middy, Bosun Jones, and about twenty men came marching up, to find a group of Ngati's men seated in a close circle, their blankets spread about them and their heads bent forward, grunting together, and not so much as looking round.
In fact, when the middy rose as if to beat it, the animal lay down on the deck, grovelling and whining piteously, as it watched his actions with one eye, that said as plainly as could be, "You don't mean it. I'm such a little thing that you would not hurt me." Bob did not hurt it, but gave it one of Dullah's mangosteens instead, and peace was made.
"Oh!" cried the middy; and then, "All right, I'm coming." "No, no, don't!" came to him in smothered tones, as he began to climb; "I've got room again. Coming back." There was a good deal of shuffling and scraping, and then Aleck's feet came into the light over the top of the block. The next minute he was on his feet beside his companion, hot, panting, and with the front of his clothes wet.
The losses had been severe, but far less than might have been expected, owing to the devotion of the men, who had struggled on till they could get no farther, and would have perished one and all but for the timely succour brought by the middy, and indirectly by the emissary of Rajah Gantang, who little thought when he took the steamer, by his clever ruse, up the solitary river, that he was leading them where it would be the salvation of the hunting-party, who were doomed to death.
Mary Rose fairly squealed with delight when she was in the white middy blouse and the skirt flapped about her ankles in such a very grown-up manner. Mary Rose's yellow hair had always been bobbed but no one had seen that it was trimmed before she left Mifflin and it hung in rather straight lanky locks about her elfish face.
He leaped forward, seized the donkey's rein with one hand, caught the man's left leg with the other, and hurled the rider backward to the ground. The bump with which the Moor's head came down had the effect of keeping it low, but the spectators of the incident, who were numerous, rushed upon the poor middy, seized him, and carried him straight to a court of justice.
"Pardon, Madden, but who is that chap coming up Say, Gridson, that isn't why that's Wentworth!" The middy suddenly dropped his voice. "That's Wentworth or his ghost, fellows off of a tug!" Madden looked. Smith was coming on the deck under the solicitous escort of a surgeon. "That's Caradoc Smith," said Madden. "He assumed command of the tug when he found out war was declared."
Word Of The Day