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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Haul in the gang-plank;" "Let go the tow-line," shouted the captain of the 'Fletcher'. Then he signalled the engineer to go ahead, and the little schooner 'Eothen' was abandoned to her own resources and the mercy of the mighty ocean.
It would be the same way about your coming back here if you'd just keep hoping hard enough." "Come Dicky," called Mr. Moreland from the upper deck. "They're about to take in the gang-plank. Don't get left." Maybe it was just as well that there was no time for good-byes. Maybe it was more than the little fellow could have managed manfully.
I cannot help feeling that the proper time for departure had come; but this destroys the story and robs the comandante of his reputation for chivalry. As Miss Palett's gondola neared the grain-ship, Salemina, it seems, spied the commanding officer pacing the deck. "See," she said to her companion, "there is a gang-plank from the side of the ship to that small flat-boat.
These craft were not enabled to make a landing anywhere, even with a run-out gang-plank but took passengers and parcels aboard by lighters. Lincoln's small boat seemed admirably placed to serve as a transport to a couple of gentlemen who came down to the shore to ship on the steamboat. Their trunks were taken out of their carriages, and they selected Lincoln's new boat among some others.
The soldiers marched single file over the gang-plank of the boat, the officers said good-bye, the shrill whistle of the "General McPherson" sounded and they were off. We leaned back against the coal-sheds, and soldiers' and officers' wives alike all wept together. And now a season of gloom came upon us. The skies were dull and murky and the rain poured down.
In a moment the gang-plank was drawn aboard; the lines were cast off; the great paddle-wheels began to turn; the swift current laid hold upon us and the Gladiateur, slipping away from the bank, headed for the channel-arch of the Pont-du-Midi. The bridge was thronged with our friends of Lyons come down to say good-bye to us.
In the face of even the most damning circumstances, he felt that Evelyth's rugged common sense would evolve some way of escape from this hideous nightmare. Upon landing at New York he hardly waited for the gang-plank to be lowered before he rushed on shore and grasped the hand of his partner, who was waiting on the wharf.
Just as I left him and hastened on board, a sailor fell overboard from the gang-plank. He was quickly rescued, but could not imagine why he had fallen. I believe, however, that he was tripped up by the snake part of my friend as he convulsively rushed away." The young man ceased, and gazed pensively upon the floor.
They struggled through the waiting masses, but directly opposite the landing there was a backward movement in the happy, laughing crowd, the gang-plank came down with a slam, and people began hurrying from the boat. Crowded against the fish house on the dock, Henderson could only advance a few steps at a time. He was straining every nerve to protect and assist Edith.
"The painters left it in the cellar," said Minerva. "Let's hurry, I'll show you where it is." There was, indeed, just time enough to arrange this novel life-saving station with its picturesque gang-plank before the guests began to arrive.
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