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Updated: June 17, 2025
A wounded cavalier, accompanied by one of his retainers, also wounded, is being forced along on foot, evidently to imprisonment, by one of Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with musquetoon on shoulder.
Betwixt this vessel and the reef a boat rowed furiously, and upon the reef itself a man fled shorewards marvellous fleet and nimble. Presently from his pursuers in the boat came a red flash and the report of a musquetoon followed by divers others, whereat the poor fugitive sped but the faster and came running to that strip of white beach that beareth the name Deliverance.
I sprang into the boat, shoved off, and we were in the stream and at thirty yards' distance before they looked over the wall to see where we were. "Stop, in that boat! stop!" they cried. "Fire, if they don't," cried their master. We pulled as hard as we could. A musquetoon was discharged, but the shot dropped short; the only person who fell was the man who fired it.
Fire was speedily obtained from one of their guns, and Hobbie was already advancing to the pile with a kindled brand, when the surly face of the robber, and the muzzle of a musquetoon, were partially shown at a shot-hole which flanked the entrance.
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