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In this particular instance, however, it was a humpback whale, but as Orca Gladiator treats the humpback and "right" whale as he does the lengthy "finner," the extract from the article is quite applicable. "Let us imagine a warm, sunny day in August at Twofold Bay.
I guessed at once that by that thrust he sought to incline her more to the union he had in view for her. "At least he was no craven," answered she. "His burning desire to please me may have betrayed him into this foolish duplicity. But he still must live in my memory as a brave and gallant gentleman; or have you forgotten, Filippo, that noble combat with the forces of Ramiro del' Orca?"
At the time I thought of it no more, but in the morning when the horrible news that spread through the Palace gained my ears, that smile of Ramiro del' Orca recurred to me at once. It was from the seneschal of the Palace that I first heard that tragic news. I had but risen, and I was descending from my quarters, when I came upon him, his old face white as death, a palsy in his limbs.
Near Orca, Prince William Sound, Alaska, June 27 . Since I wrote you at Sitka we have come further north and spent five days in Yakutat Bay and since Saturday in this sound have seen innumerable glaciers and lofty mountains and wild strange scenes. At Yakutat we went into Disenchantment Bay, 30 miles where no large steamer had ever gone before.
Am I a mother-abbess, that you should set me such a question?" Two dark lines showed between his brows. His voice quivered with passion. "I ask you again where is the girl?" I laughed like one who is a little wearied by the entertainment provided for him. "Here be no girls, Messer del' Orca," I answered him in the same tone. "Nor can I think what this babble of girls portends."
Cesare Borgia would avenge me, and Madonna Paola, at least, would be safe from this villain. If Mariani could reach Valentino at Faenza, I would answer for it that within four-and-twenty hours Messer Ramiro del' Orca would be the banner on that ghastly beam that he facetiously dubbed his flagstaff; and he would be the blackest, dirtiest banner that ever yet had fluttered there.
Three "killers" were attacking him at once, like wolves worrying a bull, except that his motions were far less lively than those of any bull would have been. The "killer," or ORCA GLADIATOR, is a true whale, but, like the cachalot, has teeth.
At other places on the Australian coast there are permanent pods of ten, fifteen or twenty, but those at Twofold Bay are quite famous, and every individual member of them is well-known, not only to the local whalemen, but to many of the other residents of Twofold Bay as well, and it would go hard with the man who attempted to either kill or injure one of any of the members of the two pods, for the whalemen would be unable to carry on their business were it not for the assistance rendered to them by their friends the killers, whose scientific name, by the way, is Orca Gladiator and a more fitting appellation could never have been applied.
A short distance out an impatient, affectionate orca rose between his waiting legs, and carried him home on her back. Sylviana watched in weary peace, with dreamy eyes thinking how sweet it might be to one day have a child of her own. Until something in the emptiness of the beach arrested her. 'Kalus, the boat. It's gone! And so it was.
Kalus unfastened his spear, moved forward and stood up in the bow -awed, but fiercely determined to defend his own. All was quiet and still. Above patches of white, dark eyes studied them darkly. The orca seemed to be asking himself, almost casually, were they worth the trouble?
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