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The officer who had hurt me now called out, "Don't fire into us, sir, for I'm on board, and have got possession." The officer from the ship next asked, "Is there anybody alive on board her?" To which the prize-officer answered, "I don't know, sir, I've seen but one man, as yet." I now went down below.
I was prize-officer in charge of the Manilla at the time; hence my presence in one of her boats." "And how came you, sir, to be chief officer on board a British privateer?" now demanded Renouf. I could not, for the life of me, comprehend the drift of this question, but there was no mistaking the insolent intonation of it.
"The Druid has answered properly, Sir Gervaise, and has already hauled up so close that I think she will luff through the line, though it may be astern of the Carnatic." "And the prize, Bunting? Have you signalled the prize, as I told you to do?" "Yes, sir; and she has answered so properly that I make no question the prize-officer took a book with him.
The men did succeed in getting into the prize; but the boat, in the end, was stove and lost. The appearance of the red flag of England, the symbol of his own professional rank, and worn by most under his own orders, over the white ensign of France, was the sign to Sir Gervaise that the prize-officer was in possession.
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