The Arvada enterprise., 1916-11-09
CNAPTE Err XXI.

When "" hove to, Il hasty though or.
derry confusion rc.sned. The boats
came aboard from every side at once.
AS fast as the prisoners came over
the rail they were marshaled forward
into the fOrccastle by our hunters
while our sailors hoisted in the boats.
pcll-mcll, dropping them anywhere up
on the deck and not stopping to lash
them. We were already under way, all
sails set and drawing, and the sheets
being Stacked of for wind abeam, as
the last boat lifted clear of the water
md swung In the tackles
There was need for haste The
Macedonia. bclchng the blackest OF
smoke from her funnel. was charging
down upon US from out of the north.
east Ncglecting the boats that re,
manned to her, she had altered her
course so as to anticipate ours She
was not running straight for us. but
ahead OF us. our courses wer. con.
ycrging like the sides OF an angle, the
ycrtcN OF which was at the edge of the
fog bank. II was there. or not at all
US. The hope FOR the Ghost lay In
that she should pass that point before
the Macedonia arrived at II.
Better get your rifles, you fellows"
Wolf Larsen called to our hunters:
and the five men lined the lee rail
guns in hand. and waited.
The Macedonia was now but mile
In
her funnel at a right angle. so madly
she raced. pounding through the sea at
scvontCen.knot gait" Sky,hoOting
through the brine" as Wolf Larsen
quoted while gazing At her. We were
not making more than nine knots but
the FOG bank was very near
pun OF smoke broke from the
MaccdonIa's deck. We heard heavy
report, and Il round hole took form in
the stretched canvas OF our mainsail
They were shooting at MS with one of
the small cannon which rumor had
said they carried ON board. Our men.
clustering amidshIps, waved their
hats and raised II derisiye cheer Again
there was pun OF smoke and loud
report, this time the cannon bail strik,
ing not more than twenty feet astcrn
and CHANGING twic. from sea to sea TO
windward ere II sank.
But there vas no rin. firing for the
reason that all their hunters were out
In the boats or our prisoners When
the two vessels were half mile apart,
u third shot mad. another hole In our
mainsail. Then We entered the fog II
was ahou, US, yelling and hiding us In
its dense wet Gguyc.
The sudden transition was startling
The moment before wc had been leap
ing through the sunshine. the clear
sky above us. the sea breaking and
rolling wide to the horizon and shin.
vomiting smOk" and fire and iron mis-
siles, rushing madly upon us And at
once. as In an instnn,'s leap the sun
was bluttcd out, there was no SKY.
even Our masthoads were lost to view
and our horizon was such as tear blind.
cd eyes may see
II was weird, strangely weird
looked at Maud brewster and knew
that she was similarly affected Then
i''h'h at N'Al l#aIN N'llt nut lUflf NAN
nothing subjective about his state OF
consciousness. Ills whole concern was
with tn" immediate, obIcCtiy" present.
He still held the wheel. and felt that
he Was timing time, reckoning the
passage OF the minutes with each FOR
ward luugc and lorward roll NJ the
Ghost
Go forard and hard Ice without
any noise" h" said to mo In y low
voice. "Clcw up the ,opsails trs, Set
men at all the shoots Let there be no
rnttllug Of blocks no sound ot voices
No noise, understand NO noise"
when all was ready the word hard
alice" was passed forward to mo from
man To man. and the Ghost hcelcd
abou, on the pof, tack with practically
no uoisc at all, And what little there
was-,hc slappinr OF few rcctpolnls
and the crcaklng OF a shcnyc In a block
or ,wo--was ghos,ly under the hollow
cchoIng pail In which We were
Bwa,hcd,
We had scarcely filled away II
seemed when the fSg thluucd abruptly
aud wc wcrc again IN the sunshine. the
wldc.strctChiug sea breaking before us
TO the skyline put the ocean vas