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"Paul Vapoor is my friend and crony; and if he had been my professor in a college he could have done no more for me. I assure you, Captain, that I keep alive my gratitude to all my instructors, including some you have not mentioned." "I was only explaining why you are what you ought to be, for you have had very exceptional opportunities, better by far than any other officer in the service.
At the right time let this boat hurry to the starboard side of the Tallahatchie, where the twenty men or more will board, and take the enemy in the rear." The commander took off his cap and rubbed his bald head as if to stimulate his ideas; but he made no answer then to the suggestion. Paul Vapoor was driving the engine to its utmost, and the ship was rapidly approaching the enemy.
Paul Vapoor bade his friend an affectionate adieu, and went over the side. The Bronx started her screw at once. The Bronx continued on her course indicated in the verbal order of the flag-officer. Christy felt that he had had a narrow escape from death, or at least a severe wound, at the hands of the desperado who had invaded his cabin.
That's another fellow?" "No: it's the same fellow, Paul Vapoor. Everybody that knows him says he is a genius. He was my teacher. But he told me that all the theory in the world would not make me an engineer: I must have the experience; and for weeks together I took the place of one of the assistant engineers.
When it came to disposing of the vessels that were no longer needed for the navy, Christy bought the St. Regis, for in a moderate way compared with his father he was a rich man. On the day he was twenty-one years old, Bertha Pembroke became his wife; and Paul Vapoor became the husband of Florry Passford on the same occasion. Over a year had elapsed since the war, and the St.
She seemed suddenly to have taken the bit in her teeth, and she was rushing forward at a speed which she had not before exhibited. Paul Vapoor was evidently wide awake. A little later her port-holes flew open. The crisis was at hand; for the Dauphine was darting in between the Leopard and the Bellevite, between father and son.
Vapoor," said the captain. "We shall have no trouble in making twenty-two knots, sir, with the sea as it is now," replied the engineer. "That steamer means to go into the Cape Fear River," said Mr. Blowitt, when the chase had laid her course. "If she was going in at Savannah, or round into the Gulf, she would go more to the south."
As there was nowhere less than three fathoms of water, and Captain Breaker knew every inch of bottom, he directed Mr. Vapoor to hurry the engine, so that no one should have time to change his mind. The steamer shot by the fort as though she did not like the looks of it, and in another half an hour she was out of the reach of its guns.
If you will make yourself at home on board of the Bronx, I will read these papers in my cabin," said the captain, as he went below. "I think Mr. Passford and I shall not waste any time while you are engaged, captain," replied Mr. Vapoor.
Every man was in his place at the midship gun, seventeen of them, including the powder-boy, and Christy gave the orders for loading the piece as though he had been in the navy all his life. The other guns, the broadsides, were loaded at the same time. But just now Paul Vapoor was the most important man on board, and he was rapidly making himself felt in the increasing speed of the Bellevite.
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