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Rayner found, on inquiry, that, fortunately, a board was to sit the very next day, and, meeting Captain Saltwell, he mentioned his intention. "The very thing I was going to advise," was the answer. "I'll write a letter to Captain Cranston, and you can take it with you." Next morning Rayner presented himself on board the flagship, where he found several other midshipmen ready to go up.
"I can prove, though, that I speak the truth," exclaimed Jemmy, who saw the day turning against him. "Any one of you go and ask Mr Saltwell. He heard it from the captain, I tell you." "No, no," put in Togle. "Punishment first and proof afterwards. That's the way the Turks manage, and they are sensible people.
You can take the cobbing first, and then go and ask Mr Saltwell, or the skipper himself, if you like." "You go and be damned, Togle," retorted Duff. "You know well enough that I'm speaking the truth; and mind, old chap, I shall keep you to your bet, two months, you said." "I made no bet," answered Togle.
Captain Saltwell, thanking the admiral, expressed his intention to take a passage in his old ship. The news quickly spread fore and aft that the Lily was to be sent home. Loud cheers rose from many a stout throat, the invalids, of which there were not a few, joining in the chorus from below.
"It looks too like it," said Saltwell. "But if they had got on any rocks they would have taken a longer time to put her to rights. What think you of her being launched from the deck of a sinking vessel?" "The same idea struck me," observed Mr Norton, the master. "I suspect, if we had the means of ascertaining, that she will be found to be one of the boats of the lost Zodiac."
He had, shortly before the time of which I speak, come to sea for the first time. A day or two after he had joined the Ione, one of the marines insulted him by quizzing his Irish brogue, so he forthwith lodged his complaint with Mr Saltwell. The first lieutenant desired him to point out the man.
Whether or not this was the case it was impossible to say. The Ione continued her course, and in a short time ran the enemy out of sight. On her arrival at Gibraltar, the first intelligence Mr Saltwell received was that he had been promoted to the rank of commander. The very next day two ships came in from the fleet with despatches, which the Ione was directed to carry immediately to England.
Scarcely, however, had he descended three or four steps, when the smoke filling his mouth and nostrils, he would have fallen headlong down had not Ben and Jack hauled him up again, almost in the same condition as Mr Saltwell had been. "I told you so, sir," said Ben, as he carried him out of the way of the hose, which now began to play over the spot, under the direction of Mr Saltwell.
"It's more like a boat bottom up, or a thick piece of timber, than anything else," was the answer; "but I think it's a boat, sir." "It's not worth while going out of our course to ascertain," observed Linton. "I am not so certain of that," exclaimed Saltwell. "It may be part of the wreck of the Zodiac. At all events, I shall inform the captain."
And, Saltwell, if I die, as I think I shall, when you get home, see my poor Julia bear her my deepest love, and tell her I thought of her to the last." "I'll do all you wish, my dear fellow," answered Saltwell, deeply affected. "But we must not let you slip through the doctor's fingers; cheer up, for the sake of all your friends.
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