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When he saw her, he raised his pistol and fired point-blank at her, but he missed and she fired and didn't miss. The two shots awakened everyone, and as our men were armed, the result was inevitable as you see it; but it would have been very different had it not been for Miss La Rue. It was she who closed the diving-tank sea-cocks and roused Olson and me, and had the pumps started to empty them."
"Aiwa, aiwa," said the disregarded prophet "he drink water" and all hands pulled madly to get the boat back to the nearest side of course the side from which it had started. Those who have studied the diplomatic wiles of our hero, are convinced that he had himself opened the sea-cocks or taken what other steps were necessary to scuttle his craft and save his honour.
The sea-cocks, said the Fourth Lord, would be opened twenty miles from land so that the "Intrepid" might come in sadly down by the bows, and the "Terrific" with a list of twenty degrees, pluckily towing her sorely crippled sister.
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