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haps the Mongolian — she's slower than we — is in communication. Get some ship, and stand by till they can understand where we are ! Tell them we are about to abandon ship !"
"Oh, but there's no one — there's no one in this part of the ocean !" cried Pinckney.
"Try it — the wireless !" Sommers shouted to steady him. "Try it — the wireless — to save us all — to save yourself !"
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side themselves with fear, crowded forward and started a rush for the boats. Dick threw himself against them and tried to check and command them. But Pinckney himself joined them and increased their panic.
Dick stopped suddenly, drew a revolver from the pocket of the reviving skipper, cocked it, turned, and cried to the crew :
"The first man to get into a boat — till I give the order — will be shot like
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CHAPTER X.
FROM THE REEF.
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of the mid-Pacific the glass of even
Frances felt terribly alone — unaware of the lurking presence of Pinckney on the deck behind her.
"To the boats — to the boats !" cried Hi Pinckney, unheeding the order of the lieutenant, as the storm burst upon them again. "To the boats at once !" he i yelled.
"It is useless to take to boats to 3 save ourselves in this part of the sea," ;e ; Sommers tried to reason with the fearcrazed man, "unless we can warn some t ship to pick us up ! The wireless ! It is the only chance for any of us — for i ! yourself !"
But now the crew, wild-eyed and be
a dog! Some one of you who understands the dynamo go down to the dynamo room and see that the current is supplied ! Pinckney, go to the key and call — call for your life and the lives of us all ! Go — or I shall shoot you first ! Are you afraid, you fool, that I'll get off and leave you? No ! I'll stay here to shoot the next to the last to leave if he disobeys me ! Remember — the women and Mr. Durant first ! In order, there ! Prepare to abandon ship !"
his wireless cabin, set far up on the highest deck beneath the Mongolian's bridge, the operator strained his eyes anxiously into the blackness ahead.
In spurts and short dashes — as a company under fire crouches and crawls while the opposing batteries beat upon it, and then springs forward in the lulls while the batteries must rest or reload — the great Mongolian, bound from the Philippines to San Francisco, was making her slow advance. As the hurricane beat upon her, Harling could feel