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Updated: June 19, 2025
There was therefore absolutely no chance of the Union being missed should she come within twenty miles from the Angamos, for a man with a powerful telescope would be able to cover at least that distance from the cruiser's fore-topmast head. But despite the strict look-out maintained aboard the Angamos, the days passed without any sign of the Union making her appearance.
Even after the strip of water had been crossed on the return journey and the meat exposed to the full, unobstructed glare of the sun the cruiser's messcooks had to saw off their portions, and the remainder continued hard as long as it lasted. But the satisfaction of the men who ate that fresh American beef cannot be told.
Willing hands assisted in reclaiming the wounded and gas victims from the hold of the ship. Jack and his captain, the latter still unconscious, suffering from a severe concussion of the brain, were lifted over the side and carried to the cruiser's sick bay for their wounds to be dressed.
The man at the stern of the other boat had instantly disappeared. "Look out," shouted Perry from the forward cabin. "They're going to shoot from the ports! Come down from there, Steve!" But Steve's hand was on the clutch and, as the Adventurer began to go astern, his other hand turned the spokes of the wheel and the cruiser's bow came slowly around toward the Follow Me.
The bells of the shipping in the harbour were chiming eight which in this case meant noon when the first white feather of steam began to play about the tops of the cruiser's steam pipes; and at the sight the watchers on board the yacht stirred in their chairs and assumed a more alert attitude, for further developments might now be looked for.
Making suggestions to the Emperor, giving orders to a battle cruiser's captain, and now telling a Ranger a fellow Ranger, she reminded herself there was a thing he could not do. Medart sensed her feelings and smiled to himself. Yeah, she had the adaptability, all right.
In no sense of the word, however, did the rush resemble a panic. The aft-deck had seen greater haste on all sides in a scramble on deck to cheer a troopship passing the cruiser's escort. But the variety of dress and undress, the expressions of grim anticipation in each man's face as he stumbled over the uneven deck, set Thorogood's reeling mind, as it were, upon its feet.
"Now we'll get 'em.... Lord!" in a piercing undertone as some misguided humorist in the cruiser's stokehold inconsiderately allowed a puff of black smoke to issue forth from the foremost funnel, completely to obliterate the strings of flags. The Leading Signalman, not being a thought reader as well as a conjurer, put down his telescope with a grunt until the pall cleared away.
The great ship bucked under the sudden acceleration, and Tom could feel the tug of war between the cruiser's thrust and the satellite's gravity. The ship continued to drop at slightly lessened speed, but still too fast to land safely. Tom waited for Vidac to order emergency thrust to counter the pull of the satellite. They were dropping too fast.
"Full speed astern!" roared Frobisher down the speaking-tube, forgetting that the order was in English. The engineers understood perhaps the command was expected and slowly the Chih' Yuen's destroying ram withdrew itself from the gash in the other cruiser's side.
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