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The people were taken entirely by surprise, and the only thing that could be resorted to to meet the emergency that was upon them, was for the loyal citizens along the raider's path before and behind to assemble and make resistance and obstruction to his march. Gen. Anderson, comprehending the situation, at once gathered together a few men and started in pursuit of Morganson.
If the ship had only stopped when ordered by signals to do so, there would have been no firing at all. Even if she had stopped after the warning shots had been fired, no more firing would have taken place and nobody need have left the ship at all. What a vast amount of trouble, fear, anxiety, and damage to life and property might have been saved if only the raider's orders had been obeyed!
However, to our intense relief, nothing of what we had feared happened, and as the raider came slowly nearer to us up till now we had not even seen one of the enemy an officer on the bridge megaphoned us to come alongside. This we did; three boats went astern, and the one in which we were remained near the raider's bows.
I should be well paid, Achmet Zek." A smile of relief passed over the raider's face. "Well said, Werper," and Achmet Zek slapped his lieutenant upon the shoulder. "You should be well paid and you shall.
"We fired those guns to notify the Pioneer we had encountered the raider." "Well, why didn't you shoot at her?" demanded Mrs. Wheaton. Captain Stoneman was about to make an angry retort, but restrained himself with a visible effort. The raider's boat scraped alongside the Algonquin. "Throw down a ladder here," said a voice in English, though with a heavy German accent.
His horrified thoughts were expressed in the look of fear that was in his lashless eyes. His life yes! That must be the raider's culminating object. Or would he leave him that, so that he might further torture him by burning him out of Calford.
Shortly after, the young Lieutenant came down and explained why the raider, which the German sailors told us was the Wolf, had fired on us. We then learnt for the first time that many persons had been killed outright by the firing another direct result of the Hitachi's failure to obey the raider's orders to stop. It was impossible to discover how many.
These disastrous occurrences have merely hastened my plans. I am not so young as I was, you know," with an attempt at lightness, "I simply dare not stay. I fear that Retief will soon attempt my life." He sighed and looked for sympathy. Old John seemed too amazed to respond. He had never realized that the raider's efforts were solely directed against Lablache. The money-lender went on.
With the report of each the raider's rage and chagrin increased, until he was in such a transport of ferocious anger that none dared approach him.
It seemed too, at the time, that if only the Hitachi had turned tail and bolted directly the raider's smoke was seen on the horizon by the officer on watch on the bridge at the latest this must have been about 1.30 she might have escaped altogether, as she was a much quicker boat than the German. At any rate, she might have tried.
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