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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I am sorry to say that three were injured by the falling of the pieces of the walking-beam." "Seriously?" "Two slightly, and one severely." "Thank you, major." "Of course, I am not informed of the fate of those in the boat when it was sunk," added the prisoner. "I think no one was badly hurt in that part of the affair," said Christy.
Bobby could soon make out atop the walking-beam, the swaying iron Indian with bent bow, and the piles of slabs which constituted the Lucy Belle's fuel. Almost immediately she was passing, within ten feet or so of the hut. The water boiled and eddied among the piles, rushing in and sucking back. A fat, ruddy-faced man in official cap and citizen's clothes leaned over the rail.
She was a large paddle-wheel steamer of two thousand five hundred tons, well-equipped and very fast. The massive walking-beam rose and fell above the deck. At one end a piston-rod worked up and down. At the other was a connecting-rod which, in changing the rectilinear motion to a circular one, was directly connected with the shaft of the paddles.
The walking-beam heaved up and down with many a painful creak. "Why! that place is real pretty when you look at it from the lake," murmured Janice, looking back at the little landing. "I wonder if Poketown will be like it?" She looked about her, half tempted to ask a question of somebody.
"And I shall take the responsibility of having advised the ladies to go on board of the Bellevite," interposed the steward. "But you have not reported upon the condition of the enemy after the shot hit the Vampire, Mr. Watts," said Christy, impatiently. "The shot struck her walking-beam, smashed it all to pieces, and cleaned it off completely. Of course, that disabled her.
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