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Updated: May 19, 2025
The Merrimac's shot glanced harmlessly off the round turret, while her attempts to run the Monitor down failed. Meanwhile the big guns in the Monitor's turret, firing every seven minutes, were pounding the ram's sides with terrible blows. The Merrimac's armor was at points crushed in several inches, but nowhere pierced, About noon the fight stopped, as if by mutual consent.
"Say," spoke an excited voice, "we're flooded! The hose has burst, and we are deluged, and " "Boys, a light the monitor's coming," interrupted a warning voice. "Cut for it! Something's wrong! We're caught!" There was heedless rush now from the next room. Frank could hear the hose dragged along the corridor. The door of the adjoining room was hurriedly closed.
By mutual agreement the story of the chicken was kept secret for the present, and the next three days passed uneventfully, except to Jack, whose Sunday at home was no small event, though a weekly one. Lessons were just ended on the following Wednesday morning, and Cadbury was doing monitor's work in the school-room when Grey sidled up to him. "Hullo, Dapple-grey, you're the culprit I was wanting.
But, let him not be surprised if his heavy shot is powdered, and his Minié bullets glance harmless, as from a Monitor's turret, for beneath lies the iron truth that 'God is God, and that saves the lie that 'Mohammed is His prophet. He is not to rush, like a madman, at the lie, and try to maul it to death by sheer force of arm and hand.
Celia's assumption of a monitor's tone had reference, apparently, to something understood between the two, for Lady Cressage deferred to it, and even summoned the ghost of a smile. "There is really nothing to tell," she faltered, hesitatingly "that is, nothing happened. I don't know how to say it the talk left my mind in a whirl. I couldn't tell you why.
The boat sometimes held her place by the Monitor's side, then was dashed hopelessly out of reach, rising and falling on the waves. A sailor would spring from the deck to reach her, be seen for a moment in mid-air, and then, as she rose, fall into her. So she gradually filled up; but some poor souls who sought to reach her failed even as they touched her receding sides, and went down.
And then the boys waved a good-by to big Jim Murphy, and the automobile passed out of the former monitor's sight. Laura and Jessie had heard what was said and they were as much disturbed as the boys themselves, if not more so. "Oh, Dave, do you think Haskers and Merwell are following you?" asked his sister, anxiously.
Each ship passed through occasional moments of danger, but the long three hours' encounter ended without other serious damage than an injury to Lieutenant Worden by the explosion of a rebel shell against a crevice of the Monitor's pilot-house through which he was looking, which, temporarily blinding his eye-sight, disabled him from command. At that point the battle ended by mutual consent.
But next morning, when the festive rioters of the Fifth approached once more the scene of their revels, what was their amazement and rage to find the door locked, and the following notice, on a piece of school paper, affixed to the panel "Monitor's room. This room is closed by direction of the monitors." You might have knocked them over with a feather, so stupefied were they by this announcement!
He rarely uses it, but now and then he operates, with one finger, slowly. And that letter originated from him his machine." "Proof!" said Brent. Queenie took up a book that lay on the seat between them and from it extracted a folded copy of the Monitor's facsimile. She leaned nearer to Brent. "Now look!" she said. "Do you notice that two or three of the letters are broken?
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