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Updated: January 31, 2025
Lately refitted and now in perfect condition throughout. Rigging, etc., as good as new. Cabin appointments of unusual richness and taste. 400 pounds. Apply, Messrs. Dewy and Moss, Agents and Surveyors, Portside Street, F ." On reading this I took Lloyd's Yacht Register from its shelf, and hunted for further details.
I reached the door on the portside, leading into the fo'cas'le, and was about to enter, when something made me look behind. As I did so, I had a shaker. Away aft, a dim, shadowy form stood in the wake of a swaying belt of moonlight, that swept the deck a bit abaft the main-mast. It was the same figure that I had just been attributing to my fancy.
The sweating, exhausted toilers who manned the pumps paused for a moment, then fell to work again revitalized. Out from the cabins, up from every nook and corner of the ship scrambled the excited horde, fully dressed, their faces haggard with doubt, their eyes aglow with joy. Land! In every round little window gleamed a face, for a moment only along the portside.
Gloomily the four young spacemen turned away from the ramp and headed for the control tower to hear the latest reports from the ships already underway. There were only a few more ships scheduled to blast off, and the cadets had already inspected them. "Wait a minute," said Tom, stopping suddenly. "The fuel tanks are on the portside of the ship, and the feeders are on the starboard.
But the fire of the enemy was becoming more accurate and deadly, and it was a question of only a few minutes before a well-directed shot would completely disable us. "'Pull down our flag, Captain, yelled John Singleton; 'let him come alongside. "It seemed to me the only thing to do, and in a couple of minutes the long gray Shark had slipped through the smoke on our portside.
"Gregg! The chart room!" I turned and ran, with Balch after me. Prince had fallen or been felled by Miko. A flash followed me from Miko's weapon, but again it missed. He did not pursue me. Instead he ran the other way, through the portside door of the library. Balch and I found ourselves in the library. Shouting, frightened passengers were everywhere.
Not at all; I am only occupied. It is a singular thing a man must be supposed to be ill when he has any business! Send me supper to this room, and a basket of wine: I expect the visit of a friend. Otherwise I am not to be disturbed." And with that he once more shut himself in. The note was addressed to one Captain Harris, at a tavern on the portside.
Where did you see this fellow messing around, Sid?" Sid thought a moment and then his face clouded. "Come to think of it, I saw him on the portside." "I wasn't even close to the tanks!" exclaimed Astro. "There was someone messing around them, then," said Roger. "Yes," said Tom grimly. "But we don't know who or what he did."
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