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For a space of perhaps two or three seconds following this a dead silence prevailed, and then from the ships afloat and the streets and quays ashore there arose a low murmur, instantly changing to a confused clamour of hurrying feet and shouting voices, expressive of the utmost panic and dismay, which became a perfect uproar when, as everybody involuntarily turned toward the spot from which the explosion had seemed to proceed, it was seen that the American warship Maine was sinking rapidly by the head, while the after part of her was enveloped in flames.
"But there are three of us and there is only one of you," protested Frank. "Well, it's the fortune of war," said the German. "The misfortune of war in this case," said Harris. The German warship was now within hailing distance and a voice called: "Who are you?" The German officer acted as spokesman and shouted back: "German officer and three British." "We'll lower a boat," was the response.
To a merchantship in war time such a signal is peremptory. It means slow up or else take the consequences. There were two possibilities that presented themselves to the commander of this particular merchantship. One was that he had met an American warship And the other! It was far less probable, but it was possible, and terrible. They might have fallen into the hands of the enemy.
At the same moment came a cry from the lookout aft: "Warship coming up astern, sir!" Quickly Jack looked around. "The first of our reinforcements," he said quietly. He gave his attention again to the enemy, who was drawing uncomfortably close. "Crash!" Jack whirled sharply. A shell had struck the Essex just above the water line on the port side. "Go below and report, Mr. Chadwick!" Jack ordered.
Flying at a height of 200 feet, he headed over the torpedo boats for Dover and seemed certain of making the English coast, but a mile and a half out from Dover his engine failed him again, and he dropped to the water to be picked up by the steam pinnace of an English warship and put aboard the French destroyer Escopette.
However, granted that they knew they could scheme successfully to evade punishment at the hands of their own government, Mike Murphy knew full well that no man could guarantee immunity from the right of a belligerent warship to visit and search, or from confiscation or months of demurrage in a prize court in the event that his ship's papers and the course the vessel was travelling failed to justify her presence in that particular longitude and latitude.
"As if just running the Chang wasn't enough of a headache for him!" The shuttle door slid open and they stepped out into a pleasant, open-wooded area which, from all appearances, was on the surface of a planet rather than inside the hull of a warship.
"Listen, Cupido; I have my boat right handy here; you know, the boat father had made to order in Valencia as a present for me. Steel frame; hard wood; safe as a warship. You know the river ... I've seen you handle an oar more than once; and I've got a pair of arms myself ... What do you say?" "I say, let's go," the barber answered resolutely.
There was a strict rule about admitting them to the plant, however, and it could not be learned that this had been violated. "Well, we'll just have to lay that aside for a while," Tom said the next day, when Ned again came to pay a visit. "Now, what do you say to tackling, with me, that recoil problem on the aerial warship?"
A huge fleet of strange-looking vessels, flying a plain blood-red flag, had just before four A.M. forced the approaches to the harbour, sunk every transport and warship with guns that were fired without flame, or smoke, or report, and whose projectiles shattered everything that they struck.
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