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Updated: June 2, 2025
He laboriously crossed two dust ruts, the wheels squeaking indignantly at the encounter, and then with a terrifying expression he gave the steering-gear a final wrench and deposited self and car approximately in front of the Happer steps. There was a heaving sound, a death-rattle, followed by a short silence; and then the air was rent by a startling whistle. Sally Carrol gazed down sleepily.
With the planks Jones had on board he heightened the stern and bow of the boat to keep out the beating waves in the rapids; he fashioned a steering-gear and a less awkward set of oars, and shifted the cargo so as to make more room in the craft. "Buff, we're in for a storm. Set up a tarpaulin an' make a fire. We'll pretend to camp to-night.
Whatever the mischance which had so swiftly overwhelmed Rivardi and Gaspard, she could not stop now to question, or determine it, she was satisfied that they were not dead, or dying. She went to the steering-gear to take it in hand but though the mysterious mechanism of the air-ship was silently and rapidly throbbing, the ship did not move.
She was a big, high-class cargo-steamer of a type that is to be met on the sea no more black hull, with low, white superstructures, powerfully rigged with three masts and a lot of yards on the fore; two hands at her enormous wheel steam steering-gear was not a matter of course in these days and with them on the bridge three others, bulky in thick blue jackets, ruddy-faced, muffled up, with peak caps I suppose all her officers.
The flames burst out somewhere near the centre of the boat, in the vicinity of the engine-room, and had already gained such headway as to interpose an effectual barrier between him and the forward deck. He supposed that the boat would at once be headed for the nearest bank, but found to his dismay that almost with the first outbreak of flame the steering-gear had been rendered useless.
The dog would bound into the tonneau, Alix would hand her husband his mail, the car would start with a great plunge toward the mountain toward the cool garden high up on the ridge "She never had an accident, Fred," he said, simply. "Alix?" The other man nodded gravely, but there was a worried look in his eyes. He did not like Peter's quiet tone. "It may be that her steering-gear broke," he said.
Just before anchoring, we came alongside of the Ruth, which lay there absolutely helpless, her steering-gear smashed beyond redemption. Much surprised to see W on the derelict, I reached over and shook his hand, and then heard his little tale of woe.
I felt sure, somehow, that nothing would ever go wrong with a steering-gear of whose destiny he was master. Not a word did he speak to me, yet I felt that my silence of tongue and stillness of body was approved of by him.
He was naked to the waist; he had lost flesh; he was haggard, worn, dirty, wet. While he pulled on a shirt Nas Ta Bega made the rope fast to a snag of a log of driftwood embedded in the sand, and the boat swung to shore. It was perhaps thirty feet long by half as many wide, crudely built of rough-hewn boards. The steering-gear was a long pole with a plank nailed to the end.
I suppose I must have done something to the steering-gear of that camel, which coastguard camels do not permit. Whatever it was, it got me into the midst of camp before I could draw breath; but I have a dim recollection of being caught by Arab arms, and seeing suppressed Arab grins, as mechanically I felt to see how far the end of my spine stuck out at the top of my head. "That flag!
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