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"Now, Mrs Childers," said the young lieutenant, "the last experiment is about to be made, and I think it will interest you even more than the others. See, they are about to send off the electrical steam-pinnace." As he spoke, a boat was being prepared alongside the ship. "Why!" exclaimed my mother, almost speechless with surprise, "they have forgotten to send its crew in it."
The steamboats drew near the ship, and in the reeling stern-sheets of the steam-pinnace the Indiarubber Man stood holding two small figures by the collars two small figures whose heads projected far beyond the lee gunwale. They were Cornelius James and the young gentleman whose valiant soul had yearned for shooting galleries and eke raspberry puffs.
"Of course; and tell the padre to meet the battalion at W Beach at ten o'clock." Down the hillside I went, across the Gully, forging like a steam-pinnace through the water, and up the face of the opposite hill. Full of the glorious bursting weight of good news, I looked down upon our batmen at work in the cookhouse, and roared: "Pack the valises. We're off to-night." I rushed into the dug-out.
This last was really a marvellous sight, and the little boat seemed indeed to deserve the encomiums of Firebrand, who said, that, "If cool, calm pluck, in the face of appalling danger, merited anything, that heroic little steam-pinnace ought to receive the Victoria Cross."
I didn't like him much, but I'm grateful to him now. I must tell him so some day." "They seemed to know him hereabouts." "He rammed the Caryatid twice with her own steam-pinnace." Presently, moved by long strokes, Mr. Pyecroft returned, skimming across the dark. The dinghy swung up behind him, even as his heel spurned it. "Commander Fasset's compliments to Mr.
These, it was soon discovered, amounted only to three, not counting the steam-pinnace, which, Frobisher feared, it would be impossible to get into the water under the circumstances; and it was at once apparent that, notwithstanding the large number of men who had been already swept overboard and drowned, there would not be sufficient accommodation for half the remaining crew.
Beside the man, Billy Keyse dwindled to a stunted boy, a steam-pinnace bobbing under the quarter of an armoured battle-ship, its huge mailed bulk pregnant with possibilities of destruction, its barbettes full of unseen, watchful eyes, and hands powerful to manipulate the levers of Titanic death-machines. Let it be understood that the intervener did not present the aspect of a hero.
D'you suppose that a man who earns his livin' by runnin' 30-knot destroyers for a parstime for a parstime, mark you! is going to lie down before any blighted land- crabbing steam-pinnace on springs?" Yet that was what he did. Directly under the car he lay and looked upward into pipes petrol, steam, and water with a keen and searching eye. I telegraphed Mr. Pyecroft a question.
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