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Updated: May 27, 2025
"'Down with the ensign; strike at once! cried eight or ten voices together, as the ball whizzed through the rigging. Anticipating this, and resolving, whatever might happen, to fight her to the last, I had made the mate, a staunch-hearted, resolute fellow, to make fast the signal sailyard aloft, so that it was impossible for any one on deck to lower the bunting.
In a short time the captain ordered the topsails to be reefed and the mainsail to be stowed and all the lighter sails handed. Jim and I were sent aloft to the fore-topgallant sailyard to furl the sail. We were laying out when, to my horror, I saw Jim disappear. I nearly fell from the yard myself, from thinking that he would be dashed to pieces, and that I should lose my staunchest friend. "Jim!
No, he is worse than a thief, he is a deceiver! He should be hanged on a sailyard your Dan! Good-bye!" He goes, but after taking two steps he turns around. "I said good-bye to you. Go home. Let this fool play alone. Well, go." Mariet is silent, motionless. Haggart laughs: "Are you afraid perhaps that I have forgotten your name? I remember it. Your name is Mariet. Go, Mariet."
But this caused no separation between the two crafts; for the same breeze carried the dismantled raft now lying light upon the water at the like rate of speed; and when at length the mast stood amidships in the gig, and the sailyard was ready to be hauled up to it, there was scarce a cable's length between them.
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