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Updated: June 30, 2025
"By what possible hypothesis a boy should be supposed to take off coat and waistcoat and wade off-shore into a winter sea is beyond my poor powers of conjecture," said the other. "No. Somebody 'planted' the clothes there." "It seems far-fetched to me," said the Reverend Mr. Prentice doubtfully. "Who would have any motive for doing such a thing?" "That is what we have to find out.
Most unwillingly the fellow tucked up his trousers grinning horribly at Orlo all the time when he was found to have on a pair of garters, out of each of which rolled thirty doubloons. The schooner's head being put off-shore, the boats took her in tow, till, a breeze springing up, sail was made on her for Sierra Leone. The next morning commenced with a thick mist and rain.
As soon as her anchor was down we went aboard, and found her to be the whale-ship Wilmington and Liverpool Packet, of New Bedford, last from the ``off-shore ground, with nineteen hundred barrels of oil.
At daybreak I found, to my great astonishment, that we were again far off-shore, and was told that the wind had gradually turned more ahead, and had carried us out none of them having the sense to take down the sail and row in-shore, or to call me.
No; led on by the miscreant whites who had formed the crew of the slave ship, and deceived by their falsehoods, they had come to attempt the recapture of the ship. The corvette had, of necessity, stood off-shore for the night. Lieutenant , hoisting a signal of distress, prepared to defend the prize to the last. He examined the shore anxiously.
You all remember the day, when the gulls flew low, and the wind blew strong from the land, and I could not hold my bidarka against it. I tied the covering of the bidarka about me so that no water could get in, and all of the night I fought with the storm. And in the morning there was no land, only the sea, and the off-shore wind held me close in its arms and bore me along.
"Any old where " he said in a clear, decisive voice. "Down a rabbit-hole . . ." And I laughed because the off-shore wind had fluttered the same page in the book of pleasant memories that we both shared. The petulant expression passed from his face, and he sank into deeper oblivion, holding the Thermos flask and binoculars against him like a child clasping its dolls in its sleep.
"Greeting, O brothers," he said, "brothers of old time before I went away with the off-shore wind." He stepped out with both feet on the sand, and Opee-Kwan waved him back. "Thou art dead, Nam-Bok," he said. Nam-Bok laughed. "I am fat." "Dead men are not fat," Opee-Kwan confessed. "Thou hast fared well, but it is strange.
"The breeze freshens, Jack," replied Gascoigne; "and it begins to look very dirty to windward. I think we shall have a gale." "Pleasant I know what it is to be short-handed in a gale; however, there's one comfort, we shall not be blown off-shore this time." "No, but we may be wrecked on a lee shore.
"He has calculated the time of the fog reaching us, and he knows that we must lay our head off-shore to be sure, we might give him the go-by if we bore up and ran back again to the Downs." "I think I see myself bearing up and running away from a rascally French privateer," said the captain. "Keep a sharp look-out there forward." "Ay, ay, sir," replied the chief officer.
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