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It was the possibility of capture which had developed into a certainty that had influenced him in his treatment of the crews of the sunk ships. Only the fear of just reprisals kept him within the bounds of civilized warfare, and having behaved in an ostentatiously proper manner towards the prisoners he received in return honourable treatment on board the Tompion.
By advice of a friend, Lemsford, alarmed for the fate of his box of poetry, had latterly made use of a particular gun on the main-deck, in the tube of which he thrust his manuscripts, by simply crawling partly out of the porthole, removing the tompion, inserting his papers, tightly rolled, and making all snug again.
The man was badly wounded, having been run through the body by Tompion, who had been compelled to inflict the wound in order to save his own life.
This schooner is as fine a sea-boat as ever was launched; and I'd sooner take my chance of riding out a gale in her than in some seventy-fours I've known." "Yes," I replied, "I think we shall be all right now. I wonder whether we have sustained any damage aloft?" "Impossible to say yet, sir," returned Tompion. "We shall know soon enough, however.
At this time, too, some of the finest of old English watches and clocks were made. Thomas Tompion, sometimes called the father of English clock making, took his place at the head of these, and to this day beautiful old clocks that are still in service testify to his skillful workmanship." "What sort of clocks did he make?" inquired Christopher with interest.
"I shall be glad to see you on board, then," said the same person. And he was heard to issue several orders in his own language. "Keep under her stern in case of treachery," said the captain to Linton and Tompion. "I will go on board I still have my doubts about her character." In another minute the gallant Fleetwood was ascending the side of the Greek brig, alone.
"Well," said I, "we must keep a sharp lookout, that is all we can do at present Is there anybody on the lookout on the forecastle?" "Yes, sir, Jack Sinclair and Bob Miles." "Thank you, that will do, Mr Tompion," said I, and the man turned away to his former post at the gangway.
We that is to say, Mr Todd and myself arrived at the Pen a few minutes before seven o'clock, and were forthwith ushered into the drawing-room, where we were received in most hospitable fashion by Sir Timothy and Lady Tompion, and where we found already assembled several captains and other officers from the men-o'-war then in harbour, with a sprinkling of merchants from Kingston and planters from the neighbouring estates, all very genial, jovial characters in their several ways.
The loud cheer and the suddenness of the movement completely took the pirates by surprise, it appeared; and instead of tacking and standing boldly towards the English to meet them, as they expected, her helm was put up, the sheets eased off, her long sweeps run out, and away she went dead before the wind, at a rate which Tompion saw would give his men a tough pull to come up with her.
"Who on earth would ever know from the skimpy marking on the other one who Mr. T. Tompion or Mr. G. Graham were?" "Probably very few persons only those, most likely, who had made a study of clocks. To my mind it is far better to remind the ignorant who perhaps never heard of Tompion or Graham, to hold their memory in grateful respect.
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