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Updated: May 9, 2025
At that moment, like the thin metallic voice of a telephone, there came faintly from the sea the words: "We hear a steam whistle!" The pilot ran off on to the breakwater, hitting out as he passed at the farmer's horse, and making it rear. Men cleared a space round the mooring-posts, and dragged up the gangways with frantic speed.
At tide-time you would see one of the loaded ships with battened- down hatches drop out of the ranks and float in the clear space of the dock, held by lines dark and slender, like the first threads of a spider's web, extending from her bows and her quarters to the mooring-posts on shore.
Bickley examined them, and answered: "I should say that they are the remains of stone mooring-posts worn down by many thousands of years of weather. Yes, look, there is the cut of the cables upon the base of that one, and very big cables they must have been."
Tufts and tussocks of shattered brush and rolling wreck played round it, and the old gray stone of mullioned windows split the wash like mooring-posts. We passed and gazed; but the only sound was the whistling of the tempest, and the only living sight a sea-gull, weary of his wings, and drowning. "No living creature can be there," the Major broke our long silence.
At that moment, like the thin metallic voice of a telephone, there came faintly from the sea the words: "We hear a steam whistle!" The pilot ran off on to the breakwater, hitting out as he passed at the farmer's horse, and making it rear. Men cleared a space round the mooring-posts, and dragged up the gangways with frantic speed.
"There are many beautiful fountains where the water gushes all day; and I often go out of my way for a sight of the Pope's soldiers, the Swiss Guard, standing at the entrance to the Vatican. They make me think of our Venetian mooring-posts with their many-colored stripes; and their stately halberds are not unlike the prow of our gondolas.
I plunged these both into the carcass and then attached the Wavecrest, bows and stern, to these strange mooring-posts. There she was, as safe as though we were in a landlocked harbor, rising and falling with a motion by no means unpleasant. The exuding oil made a charmed circle about the sloop, into which the agencies of the gale could not venture.
"Where are you taking her?" "Her? The boat? Oh, back to Hucks's Christopher Hucks, Anchor Wharf, Canal End Basin. 'Anchor, you'll observe, supposed emblem of Hope." He laughed bitterly. "Yes, yes," she nodded. "And quick quick as ever you can! Here, let me help " She caught at one of the two crowbars that served for mooring-posts and tugged at it, using all her strength.
On the right stood abandoned warehouses, square-fronted, and huddled together like a row of gigantic packing-cases; on the left they could hear the gurgle of the current among the mooring-posts, and the flapping of the water against the quay wall, where the east wind drove the wavelets up the river.
Well, if we are he arn't going to tackle two on 'em, for I'm going to see fair with my stick and the crew o' that cutter to look on to form a ring." By the time he had thought out this observation it was time for him to carefully ascend to the top of one of the great mooring-posts, the flattest-topped one by preference.
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