Part 9 (1/2)
canvas on her”
Three of the h the haze in full belief that their nal shot fired, for thethat there could be no doubt
But there was no sound to break the utter silence till Too to sleep, Joe Dance You're only teasing us, and un,” cried the coxswain
”Ay, in your head,it to Mr Russell here for keeping the cutter out all night, but it don't htylass_ sail to us without a breath o' wind?”
Dance stared at hier, but the next roan
Night see a relief fro sun, which affected man afterMr Russell, who suddenly started up in the boat just about the hottest part of the afternoon; and, his mind still impressed by the coxswain's words, he exclaiht before him--”I refuse to take the blame, Captain Maitland I did my duty by you and toward the brave, patient fellows under e If there is any one to blaht, Vandean Now, ood drink The water's deliciously cool and sweet, and what a beautiful river Ahoy! What shi+p's that?”
He lurched forward as he suddenly ceased speaking, uttered a low groan, and but for Toone overboard
The sailor lowered him down into the bottom of the boat, where he lay back, and Mark took his kerchief fro it out, and then laid it over the poor fellow's brow, ending by gazing inquiringly in the oars for help
”That's all you can do, sir,” said the ot it worse than the rest on us”
”Shall I bathe his face with the water, Toht make him thirstier and worse Better wait for sundown When the cool ti, and his co down in the bottoainst the sides
As for Mark, the rest of that afternoon passed as if he were in so which he was back ho his father andin a beautiful river, whose water suddenly grew painfully hot and scalded hirew busy again, his brain dwelling upon the chase of the slaver, and he saw through his glass the splash in the moonlit water, as one of the poor wretches was thrown overboard to stay the progress of the _Nautilus_
Soon after some one touched him, and he started up to find that all was dark, and that the edge of a dense cloud was silvered by the moon, while a face was bent down close to his
”What's thewuss, sir Mr Russell's lying there talking like in his sleep, and t'others have got it bad You and me's the only two as have any sense left”
”I--I couldn't understand for a bit, To, but I think I kno”
”That's right, sir; and as your superior officer's down, you're in coot to tell me what to do”
”What can I tell you to do?” cried Mark, in desperation ”You can't row the boat back to the coast alone”
”That's true enough, sir, but there's one thing you ought to order me to do at once”
”Yes; what?”
The sailor pointed to the flag spread out behind where the rasped his ht to, Tom?” whispered the lad at last, in awe-stricken tones