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By that time the blood was beating through my head fit to burst it, and I suppose Barney must have felt the same way. But neither of us was exactly what you might call a quitter, so we kept on. And by the end of the ninth mile they hadn't more than the length of one wheel's lead over us!
"All sweet," reported the mate as he hung up the speaking tube. "That's right," said the Captain. "You always want to know that, Mister Mate. And the lights?" "All bright, sir," said the mate. "Then you can go down and get something to eat," said the Captain. "And see that the hand wheel's clear as you go."
He kens, and I ken, that the blood will be wiped out, and the lost will be found, And Bertram's right and Bertram's might Shall meet on Ellangowan height. Hae, there's a letter to him; I was gaun to send it in another way. I canna write mysell; but I hae them that will baith write and read, and ride and rin for me. Tell him the time's coming now, and the weird's dreed, and the wheel's turning.
Close by the nose wheel he slipped and steadied himself by the shaft which reaches down to the wheel's hub. His position for a moment was absurdly ungraceful. When he straightened up, his arm slid into the wheel well. But he dragged the hose the rest of the way and passed it on up. Then that tank was full and capped.
And Bertram's right and Bertram's might Shall meet on Ellangowan height. Hae, there's a letter to him; I was gaun to send it in another way. I canna write mysell; but I hae them that will baith write and read, and ride and rin for me. Tell him the time's coming now, and the weird's dreed, and the wheel's turning. Bid him look at the stars as he has looked at them before. Will ye mind a' this?
"In the ditch!" He got down and went to investigate. "Wheel's busted. Horses must have got scared and bolted round the curve," said the engineer, meditatively. "Nothin' in the wagon. Looks bad to me; don't it to you, Mendoza?" "Si," responded Mendoza. "We go by Soria's place. He know mebbe what happen." "All right," assented Tom, sadly.
The Louisianians are coming up that cleft between the hills. All the Stonewall regiments in the centre. Ewell to flank their left. Did you ever hear Ewell swear? Look out! wheel's cut through. Lanyard's shot away. Take handkerchiefs. Haven't got any tear somebody's shirt. Number 1! Number 2! Look out! look out Give them hell. Good Heaven! here's Old Jack. General, we hope you'll go away from here!
For the rest of that day we were all very quiet and restrained; pity for the dead man being mingled with a dread of taking the wheel when night came. "The wheel's haunted," said the cook, solemnly; "mark my words, there's more of you will be took the same way Dadd was." The cook, like myself, had no watch to keep.
"You'll need a fair protection, sir, as they'll be shooting from the portholes," Gates said. "And we carn't fire back at the portholes because of the lady!" "Righto! But the man at their wheel's our meat, and anyone else who comes to take his place. "Suppose they send the Princess out, herself, to steer?" Monsieur asked. The suggestion gave me a turn.
"Maybe they died fast and the last survivor, after the bodies of the rest were overboard, got delirious and jumped after them." "Not if the galley fire was hot," said Dr. Trendon, briefly. "No; pestilence doesn't work that way." "Did you look at the wheel, Billy?" asked Ives. "Did I! There's another thing. Wheel's all right, but compass is no good at all. It's regularly bewitched."
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