of them each one about eighteen inches distant from the next and each to the in four places we think you will have a certain amount of trouble in that and thousands and thousands of the little that held everything together whispered you will you will stop quivering and be quiet hold on brethren hold on hot what s that have no teeth so they cannot chatter with fright but they did their best as a fluttering jar swept along the ship from stern to bow and she shook like a rat in a s mouth an unusually severe pitch for the sea was rising had lifted the big throbbing screw nearly to the surface and it was spinning round in a kind of sea and half going much faster than was proper because there was no deep water for it to work the ship that found herself in as it sank again the and they were triple three in a through all their three was that a joke you fellow outside it s an uncommonly poor one how are we to do our work if you fly off the handle that way i did n t fly off the handle said the screw at the end of the screw shaft if i had you d have been scrap iron by this time the sea dropped away from imder me and i had nothing to catch on to that sail that s all d you call it said the thrust block business it is to take the push of the screw for if a screw had nothing to hold it back it would crawl right into the engine room it is the holding back of the action that gives the drive to a ship i know i do my work deep down and out of sight but i you i expect justice all i ask for is bare justice why can t you push steadily and instead of like a and making me hot imder all my the thrust block had six each faced with brass and he did not wish to get them heated all the bearings that supported the fifty feet of as it ran to the stem whispered give us justice i can only give you what i can get the screw answered it s coming again i he rose with a roar as the plunged and went the engines furiously for they had httle to check them i m the noblest of human mr says so the high pressure the ship that pound herself der this is simply ridiculous the went up savagely and choked for half the steam behind it was mixed with dirty water help i m choking it gasped never in the history of invention has such a calamity overtaken one so yoimg and strong and if i go who s to drive the ship hush oh hush whispered the steam who of course had been to sea many times before he used to spend his leisure ashore in a cloud or a or a flower pot or a storm or anywhere else where water was needed that s only a little a little carrying over as they call it it happen all night on and off i don t say it s nice but it s the best we can do imder the what difference can circumstances make i m here to do my on clean dry steam blow circumstances the roared the circumstances will attend to the blowing i ve worked on the north atlantic run a good many times � it s going to be rough before morning it is n t calm now said the they were called web in the engine room there s an upward thrust that we don t and there s a twist that is very bad for and diamond plates and there s a sort of west pull that follows the twist which seriously us we mention this because we happened to cost a good deal of money and we feel sure that the owner would not approve of our being treated in this frivolous way the ship that pound herself i m afraid the matter is out of owner s hands for the present said the steam slipping into the you re left to own devices till the weather i would n t mind the weather said a flat bass voice below it s this cargo that s breaking my heart i m the and i m twice as thick as most of the others and i ought to know something the is the lowest plate in the bottom of a ship and the a was nearly three quarters of an inch mild steel the sea me up in a way i should never have expected the and the cargo me down and between the two i don t know what i m supposed to do when in doubt hold on the steam making head in the yes but there s only dark and cold and hurry down here and how do i know whether the other plates are doing their duty those plates up above i ve heard ain t more than five of an inch scandalous i call it i agree with you said a huge web frame by the main cargo he was deeper and thicker than all the others and curved half way across the ship in the e of half an arch to support the deck where would have been in the way of cargo coming up and down i work entirely and i observe that i am the sole strength of this vessel so far as my vision extends the responsibility assure you is the ship that pound herself enormous i believe the money value of the cargo is over one hundred and fifty thousand pounds think of that and every of it is dependent on my personal exertions here spoke a sea that communicated directly with 