‘A device, a trick! What could confirm one’s suspicions more than yonder display of a foreign ensign? She’s the “Shark,” I tell you, and that colour’s a stratagem. What do you say, Charles?’
‘I’m blest if I know what to think,’ said I. ‘If she’s the “Shark,” why has she taken it so leisurely, only just now setting her squaresail and gaff topsail though we have 杭州哪个浴场有服务 been in sight for a long time, crowding down upon her under a press that should awhile since have excited their suspicions? No need for them to hoist Dutch colours. If Fidler thinks he is chased, why 杭州龙凤论坛Vip don’t he haul his wind instead of keeping that fore-and-aft concern almost dead before it, as if he didn’t know on which side to carry his main boom?’
‘She’s the “Shark”!’ thundered Wilfrid, ‘the flag she is flying is a lie. Finn,’ he cried in a voice so savagely imperious, so confoundedly menacing, that I saw Miss Laura shrink, whilst the poor skipper gave a hop as though he had touched something red-hot; ‘are we overhauling that vessel?’
‘Yes, Sir Wilfrid.’
‘How long will it take us to come within gunshot of her?’
Finn scratched the back of his head. ‘Mr. Monson, sir,’ said he, addressing me, ‘that gun’ll throw about three-quarters 杭州没有桑拿了 of a mile, I allow.’
‘Call it a mile,’ said I.
My cousin, with his nostrils distended to the widest, his respiration hysteric, his whole body on the move, and with that raised look in his face I have formerly described, stared at Finn as though he would slay him with his gaze. The skipper scratched the back of his head again.
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‘Well, your honour, if yon schooner holds as she is and this here breeze don’t take off, we ought to be within gun-shot,’ here he produced a silver watch of the size and shape of an apple, ‘in three hours’ time, making it about half-past five.’
‘How far is she distant now?’
‘Betwixt three and 杭州哪些洗浴有活four mile, Sir Wilfrid.’
‘Get your gun ready.’
‘A blank shot, your honour?’
‘A blank devil and be damned to you. Load with ball. Who’s your gunner?’
‘We shall have to manage amongst us, Sir Wilfrid,杭州spa养生会所 ’ turning a face of alarm upon me.
I was about to remonstrate, but there was an expression in the eye that my cousin bent on me at that instant that caused me to take Miss Jennings’ hand
as an invitation to her to cross the deck and walk.