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An' wuth thot I got up, hod a wash an' a cup o' coffee, an' went tull the brudge. I took one look ot the bearun' o' Askthar Light. 'Twas nor'west-by- west, and the old Tryapsic down on the shoals. He was a eediot, thot mate-fellow. Ye could look overside an' see the duscoloration of the watter. 'Twas a close call for the old Tryapsic I'm tellun' ye.
Harvey got ready to faint or be sick, or both, when he heard a crack like a trunk thrown on a sidewalk, and, all small in his ear, a far-away telephone voice drawling: "Heave to! You've sunk us!" "Is it us?" he gasped. "No! Boat out yonder. Ring! We're goin' to look," said Dan, running out a dory. In half a minute all except Harvey, Penn, and the cook were overside and away.
Then it came like a flash of lightning: There was a child's pathetic cry of terror; a woman's wild, hysterical shriek and shouts of horror from the near-by craft. In an instant Durand was out of his white service jacket, his shoes were kicked off and before a wholesome pulse could beat ten he was overside, shouting to Peggy as he took the plunge: "Follow close!"
Wheeler entered into conversation with her husband about overside work in the docks, until the door was pushed open a little to reveal Miss Tyrell ready for walking. They walked on for some little time in silence. The sun had set, and even in the close streets of Poplar the evening air was cool and refreshing. When this fact had thoroughly impressed itself on Mr.
"And 'bother your orders, said she to me," Oleson cried. "'I'm your boss now, said she, 'and you take your orders from me. 'Look at that load of ivory nuts, I said. 'Bother them, said she; 'I'm playin' for something bigger than ivory nuts. We'll dump them overside as soon as we get under way." Sheldon put his hands to his ears.
If he had delayed another second his courage would have failed; he began at once to crawl to where Ismail stood swinging the light. There was room on the ledge for his knees and no more. Toes and fingers were overside.
Gunner Harry R. Hood was killed by the explosion, but the remainder of the company got safely overside in rafts and boats. The submarine appeared after the sinking and took one of the survivors aboard as a prisoner. Lieutenant-Commander Bagley, with five others, landed in a small boat on the Scilly Islands while other survivors reached shore in various ways.
The winged legion overside gave loud cries and braced themselves against the gusts. I saw Virginia Crane clinging desperately to her stanchion beside the light switches. "More light if you have it!" I screamed to her against the wind. Then Koto and I got the gun going. My first feeling was one of intense relief.
When a man looks overside and says ten knots and better, and the log says ten knots and a shade, he ain't no landsman. He spits to looward like a commodore, that parson, and I've had my suspicions right along." "All buncombe. You been readin' too many Manila newspapers." "Yes, and I see a few things on deck, too, that ain't got nothin' to do with newspapers.
'If I threw it?" This last more softly. Dennitson shook his head. "'Your price is high, she said. 'For how many sovereigns would you go? "'There are not enough coined to get me overside, was his answer. "She debated a moment, the boy forgotten in her tilt with Dennitson. "'For me? she said very softly. "'To save your life yes. But not otherwise. "She turned back to the boy.
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