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We careered round and round for perhaps an hour, flying rather than floating, getting gradually more and more into the middle of the surge, and then nearer and nearer to its horrible inner edge. All this time I had never let go of the ring-bolt.
With the help of Mr Preddle and the sailor, Mr Denning was soon lying back in the stern, and now the mate leaned out to give a few directions to Dumlow. "Have you got that painter fast to the ring-bolt so that you can cast off directly?" "Ay, ay, sir. Hear the pumps going?" "Yes; go on stowing the stores sent down as well as you can. Mr Preddle will help you."
I said to Carroll, the second captain of the gun, `I say, let us try to get our gun out without waiting for the drum, as the sooner we right the better. We housed out our gun, which had been run in amidships; but the ship heeled over so much that, do all we could, it ran in again upon us, and at the same time the water made a heavy rush into the larboard lower deck ports. `The ship is sinking, Carroll! cried I. `Lay hold of the ring-bolt and jump out; we shall all be drowned! He made for the ring-bolt, caught it, climbed out of the port, and jumped into the sea.
This was followed by a snap and a jolt: the ring-bolt or the rope had gone, and old Liz might, with perfect propriety, have exclaimed, in the words of the sea song, "I'm afloat! I'm afloat! and the Rover is free!" For one moment her heart failed; she had read of Noah's ark, but had never quite believed in the stability of that mansion.
A desperate struggle took place, at the end of which the convict, overpowered by numbers, was borne senseless to the cells, gagged, and chained to the ring-bolt on the bare flags. While in this condition he was savagely beaten by five or six constables. To this maimed and manacled rebel was the Commandant ushered by Troke the next morning. "Ha! ha! my man," said the Commandant.
By way of ornaments there was a common black japanned cruet-stand, with some trumpery bottles. There was one of those brown earthenware teapots, and an old willow-pattern soup tureen, without cover or stand, but full of flowers. Besides which, there were knives and forks, and spoons, regular cheap Sheffield kitchen ones, and as rusty as an old ring-bolt." "Indeed!" said Tom Long.
So after a minute's reflection I whipped out my knife, and cutting a couple of blocks away from the raffle on deck, I rove a line through them, and so made a tackle, by the help of which I turned the jolly-boat over; I then with a handspike prised her nose to the gangway, secured a bunch of rope on either side her to act as fenders or buffers when she should be launched and lying alongside, ran her midway out by the tackle, and, attaching a line to a ring-bolt in her bow, shoved her over the side, and she fell with a splash, shipping scarce a hatful of water.
"There now: jump out wi' the painter; man alive!" said Teddy, addressing himself to Isaac Dorkin, who was naturally slow in his movements, "you'll go souse between the boat an' the rock av ye don't be smarter nor that." Dorkin made some grumbling reply as he stepped upon the rock, and fastened the painter to a ring-bolt.
When Parson Jones awoke, a bell was somewhere tolling for midnight. Somebody was at the door of his cell with a key. The lock grated, the door swung, the turnkey looked in and stepped back, and a ray of moonlight fell upon M. Jules St.-Ange. The prisoner sat upon the empty shackles and ring-bolt in the centre of the floor. "Misty Posson Jone'," said the visitor, softly. "O Jools!"
Steve, trying to sing that, had one hand hooked into a ring-bolt under the rail and he was slowly pickling we were all pickling like a salted mackerel in a barrel. An hour past Five Fathom and the tall white tower of Cape Henlopen could be made out ahead, as well as the gray tower of Cape May through the mists to the northward. The wind was coming faster and it felt heavier.
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