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Updated: August 31, 2025
"By the way, do you happen to know whereabouts in Toba Inlet a man named Carr is located?" Thompson bethought him of his quest. "Sam Carr. He is operating some sort of settlement for returned men, I've been told." "Sam Carr? Sure. The Squalla here belongs to him or to the Company and Carr is just about the Company himself." A voice from the interior abaft the wheelhouse bellowed "Grub-pi-l-e."
Soon Cupples came cautiously up and seeing the way clear scudded along in the darkness and hid in the aft wheelhouse. I saw the whole thing now. It was a scheme to get me to make a fool of myself some fine day before the rest of the passengers and have a standing joke on me. I walked forward. The first officer was on duty.
"Gawd, I've 'ad enough," the cook gasped, and got his fat bulk to the stairway with incredible swiftness. The others were at his heel, fighting for the first chance down. A bullet clipped the deck in front of me. I looked up hastily to see Bothwell's malevolent face in the wheelhouse window. "Turn about, Mr. Sedgwick," he jeered, and let fly again.
Don't know who, sir." "Tot Dennis," answered Blythe, who had cut him down at the same time when I disposed of the boatswain. I mentioned Caine. "Didn't you finish another in the wheelhouse, Jack?" "I didn't. You did." The captain shook his head. "You're wrong about that. Must have been you."
"Stay where you are!" he shouted to the two steersmen who were preparing to quit the wheelhouse. If Captain Dixon had never made a mistake in seamanship he must have thought out the possibilities of this mistake in all their bearings. For the situation was quite clear and compact in his mind. The orders he gave came in their proper sequence and were given to the right men.
Suddenly Tedge realized a vast malevolent pleasure he couldn't hope to gain from his perishing cargo; and he began to gloat at the agony spread below his wheelhouse window, and the cattleman's futile pity for them. "They'll rot on Point Au Fer! We'll heave the stink of them, dead and alive, to the sharks of Au Fer Pass! Drownin' cows in dyin' lilies "
"Hard over, hard over!" the boys could hear the lookout roaring, and the command rang hoarsely back along the decks to the wheelhouse. Slowly, very slowly, as if reluctant to give up her prey, the bow of the mighty liner swung off, and the boys were safe.
He ran down there to see what could be done, and this must have saved his life, for while he was away another shell burst in the wheelhouse and put about twenty holes in his greatcoat which was lying on the settee. I saw the coat and the holes when he came on board, and noticed it had the ribbon of the Iron Cross and that of some other decoration in the button-hole.
An officer, with some men, now came toward them with axes, and commenced breaking up the after wheelhouse. "Here is our best chance," said Gregory. "Let us calmly await the final moment and then do the best we can. All this broken timber will float, and we can cling to it."
Hope raised her eyes and looked up at him in silence, and had the man in the wheelhouse been watching the stars, as he should have been, no one but the two foolish young people on the bow of the boat would have known her answer. The ship's bell sounded eight times, and Hope moved slightly. "So late as that," she sighed. "Come. We must be going back."
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