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For the moment, we must suspend operations on our Golconda" his name for the ruins that we were to excavate "and, as our present purpose yours no less than ours, friend Ulysses is to confuse Tobias, my suggestion is this: That you walk with me a mile or two to the nor'ard.
"We must do our best, sir, and trust in Providence," observed Paul Pringle to the young officer. "Only there's one thing I'd do I'd rather steer to the nor'ard than the south'ard of our course, so as to avoid the chance of running ashore on the Frenchman's coast. Of all the places I should hate most it would be a French prison."
"Yes; we want about two hundred gallons of water. Been out a long time." "Certainly, sir very glad to accommodate you. Been after that runaway torpedo boat?" "Yes; any news of her on shore? Our wireless is out of order." "Well, the opinion is that she was lost in the big blow a few days ago. She was reported well to the nor'ard; and it was a St. Lawrence Valley storm. Did you get any of it?"
Had they been British, they would have answered the flag flying at the peak of the yacht. "Steamer coming down from the nor'ard, sir!" suddenly sang out a man whom Tremayne had just stationed in the fore cross-trees to look out for the air-ship that was now so anxiously expected.
We had been driven a long way to the nor'ard of the Gulf Stream, and the weather was cold and bad, when one night, just as I had come on deck to keep the middle watch, and had gone to the wheel, I looked up and thought I saw a great white glittering cloud right ahead of us. I sang out, and the first mate, who was officer of the watch, crying, `Hard a-lee! ran forward.
Now, do you see the little island away there to the nor'-west?" "Yes." "Well, that is Varlaten. I mentioned it when at breakfast. Sweep your glass round to the nor'ard, the little island there is Polish Hat, and you see Lang Island in the nor'-east. These, with Krakatoa, are merely the higher parts still remaining above water of the ring or lip of the ancient crater.
It was indeed wonderful to see what consciousness and sympathy they endowed her with. "Elizabeth is behaving well," the captain said one morning, as he watched her swelling canvas and noted her speed. "There isn't much sea on," answered David; "hardly more than what we used to call in Shetland 'a northerly lipper. But yet I don't like the look to the east'ard and the nor'ard."
"The day wore on, the wind veered a few points to the nor'ard, and the sun burst out now and then from among the clouds, and, just as we were giving up all hope, his light fell on the sails of a boat which had just before put off from the shore. She breasted the waves bravely. Was she, though, coming towards us? We could not have been seen so far off.
Trimble's sorrel horse was old and stiff, and the wheels were clogged by clay mud. The frost was not yet out of the ground, although the snow was nearly gone, except in a few places on the north side of the woods, or where it had drifted all winter against a length of fence. "There must be a good deal o' snow to the nor'ard of us yet," said weather-wise Mrs. Trimble.
As this thought struck me, I observed the pirate schooner standing away to the nor'ard, almost hull down on the horizon, and I sat down on the rocks to watch her as she slowly sank from my sight. And I tell you, Ralph, my boy, that I shed more tears that time at losing you than I have done, I verily believe, all my life before "
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