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I supposed he understood." To which neither of his subordinates made reply. When ten minutes more elapsed and Devers did not come, Hastings, noting the major's impatience, called to the orderly trumpeter sitting at the neighboring fire, "Raney, go and see if Captain Devers is over with his troop anywhere, the major desires to see him."
Raney was gone full ten minutes, and when he returned it was to say that Devers's first sergeant said the captain had given orders that all talk must stop so that the worn-out men could rest, and the captain himself, rolled in his blanket, was already sound asleep. "Well, I swear!" exclaimed the major.
The men and women on the headland held their breath while she hung on its apex. Then she toppled and plunged across the mouth of the cove, quivering. She must have shaved the point by a foot. "The Raney! the Raney!" shouted young Zeb, shaking off Ruby's clutch. "The Raney, or else " He did not finish his sentence, for the stress of the flying seconds choked down his words.
In the light of these circumstances, the President decided finally to throw his hat in the ring in favour of the boss of Illinois for the United States senatorship. MY DEAR MR. RANEY: I have read with the greatest interest the account you were kind enough to send me of the Illinois Democratic State Convention.
The choir in the gallery craned forward, for the church-door was right beneath them. Parson Babbage held up his hand, and screamed out over the hubbub "Where's she to?" "Under Bradden Point, an' comin' full tilt for the Raney!" "Then God forgive all poor sinners aboard!" spoke up a woman's voice, in the moment's silence that followed. "Is that all you know, Gauger Hocken?"
The men and women must have stood a whole minute dumb as stones before there came that long curdling shriek for which they waited. The great masts quivered for a second against the darkness; then heaved, lurched, and reeled down, crashing on the Raney. As the ship struck, night closed down again, and her agony, sharp or lingering, was blotted out.
Two possibilities they held, and each big with doom. Either the schooner must dash upon the Raney a reef, barely covered at high water, barring entrance to the cove or avoiding this, must be shattered on the black wall of rock under their very feet. The end of the little vessel was written all but one word: and that must be added within a short half-minute.
Anyway, 'tis a comfort he'll be high 'pon his pins, like Nanny Painter's hens, for mine be all the purgy-bustious shape just now. Well, Sunday night he came to Raney Rock, an' Monday mornin' to Sheba farm; and no thanks to you that brought en, for not a single dare-to-deny-me glance has he cast this way." "Which way, then?"
Day broke on a grey sea still running angrily, a tired and shivering group upon the beach, and on the near side of the Raney a shapeless fragment, pounded and washed to and fro a relic on which the watchers could in their minds re-build the tragedy. The Raney presents a sheer edge to seaward an edge under which the first vessel, though almost grazing her side, had driven in plenty of water.
L. Raney, Norton, and James McIntire; Adjutant, T. F. Allen; Q. M., W. M. R. Jackson; C. S., John McColgin; Surgeon, Isaac Train; Asst. Surgeons, Tullis and Barrett. Non-Com., Field and Staff. S. M., B. P. Stacy; Q. M. S., Geo. M. Ross; C. S., B. F. Powers; H. S., James Saffron; Saddler, Serg't Albert G. Sells. Captains Wm.
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