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Updated: May 29, 2025
It was just possible to make out the big ship as she weighed anchor and, rolling and plunging, moved slowly out into the tideway. "She's gone without me!" cried Alan. "Oh, they might have come back, the cowards!" "Did you hear that that terrible sound?" asked Martin Hallowell. In a second's pause between the breaking of two waves, it was possible to hear his teeth chatter.
It did not change in density as does the true cloud; for all of its mistiness of outline there was an impression of solidity about its deeper shadows, something that the wind could not lift nor the light pierce. A mystery, and the boy devoured it with his eyes, his head bent forward and his shoulders held tensely. The place was a rocky point of land jutting forth into a reef-strewn tideway.
She was English-built, bark-rigged, bluff in the bow, square in the stern, unpainted and leaky on the whole as unkempt and disreputable-looking a craft as ever flew the black flag; and with the clank of the pumps marking time to the wailing squeak of the tiller-ropes, she wallowed through the waves like a log in an eddying tideway.
Almost all were more or less "sulky" as soon as they felt the strong tideway, and the huge Ironsides lay a helpless, useless log, half an hour after going into action. Neither do they appear to be very formidable offensively.
Yet we got them into the creek, Elgar making them fast so that they would rise as the water rose. Then he said he would swim back, and if he could manage it would raise the large boat and bring that also. So without climbing out from under the high banks of the creek he splashed out into the tideway, and started back.
Estein told her of the storm at sea and the fight with the Vikings; how they had fallen man by man, and how he too would have been numbered amongst the dead but for the tideway and the rocks. As she listened, her eyes betrayed her interest in the tale, and when he had finished, she said, "I have heard of Liot and Osmund. They are the most pitiless of all the robbers in these seas.
While the afternoon was yet young he had chartered a yawl, a true one-man craft, carrying plenty of canvas for her inches, but not too much. She had a small, snug cabin, was well-found as to gear, and was equipped with a sturdy single-cylinder gas engine to kick her along through calm and tideway.
The sound of the bell could be heard clearly enough now the uncertain, hesitating clang of a bell-buoy rocked in the tideway with its melancholy note of warning. Indeed, there are few sounds on sea or land more fraught with lonesomeness and fear. Behind it and beyond it a faint "tap-tap" was now audible.
He was a gigantic creature, and Robin and he, slowly forging towards each other through the surrounding sea of faces, looked like two liners in a tideway. Robin's conduct in deliberately attracting the notice of yet another representative of law and order appeared eccentric on the face of it, but his subsequent behaviour was more peculiar still.
It in no way tended to sweeten Lord Ventnor's temper, which was further exasperated when he hurt his shin against one of Robert's disreputable-looking tins, with its accumulation of debris. The boat swung off into the tideway. Her progress shorewards was watched by a small knot of people, mostly loungers and coolies.
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