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Updated: May 29, 2025
Mechanically he leaned forward to lace the stretcher-shoes, letting the handle of his oar rest against his stomach; mechanically he tried to slide, tested the oarlock. Then some one gripped the blade of his oar, pushing gently outward. The shell floated gingerly out into the stream. "Starboard oars, paddle."
Deacon's head became clear. None of the physical torture he had felt in the past mile was now registered upon his consciousness. No thought but that of impending victory! "Less than a quarter of a mile, boys. In the stretch. Now my God!" Following the coxswain's broken exclamation, Deacon felt an increased resistance upon his blade. "Eh?" "Innis has carried away his oarlock."
No paddle, no creaking oarlock, broke the stillness. I was in the next boat to the General's, for, with Clark and twenty-two other volunteers to the forlorn hope, I was to show the way up the heights, and we were near to his person for over two hours that night.
He thought it best to get back to the hotel at once, and tell Mr. Mallison of his suspicions. But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip. "Where is Mr. Mallison?" he asked of the clerk of the hotel. "Out in the stable, I believe," was the answer.
I sung out and asked them were they practicing for the Harvard and Yale boat race and Dave was that peeved he shied an oarlock after me. Haw, haw, haw!" "You ought not to provoke Dave, Walter." "Provoke him? But he was provoked already, Ma. There's no harm putting an extra stick on the fire when it's burning, anyhow. Besides, Dave is never in earnest when he bawls me out.
A brisk walk to the beach and back, then a dash of cold spring water on her face, roused her. As she came back to camp she thought she caught a faint and distant sound. "Like an oarlock creaking," she told herself, "yet who would be out there at this time of night?" She retraced her steps to the beach to scan the sea that glistened in the moonlight.
Seagraves, the coxswain, was standing up waving his megaphone. Rollins, at Number Seven, lay prone over his oar. Innis, who had broken his oarlock, sat erect; Wallace, at Number Five, was down. So was the bow oar. Mechanically Deacon's hand sought the water, splashing the body of the man in front of him. Then suddenly a mahogany launch dashed alongside.
"She goes ahead all right," said Christopher, "but how shall we guide her?" "Oh, I have thought of that," said Robert. He took something like an oarlock from his pocket and fastened it to the stern of the boat; then with a paddle which worked in this oarlock one of the boys could guide the boat while the other turned the paddle wheels. "It is better than poling the boat," said Christopher.
No paddle, no creaking oarlock, broke the stillness. I was in the next boat to the General's, for, with Clark and twenty-two other volunteers to the forlorn hope, I was to show the way up the heights, and we were near to his person for over two hours that night.
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