Gordon Young

Name: Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17
Author: Gordon Young

Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

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“Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17”, published in 1922, is a work by Gordon Young. It explores elements such as McGuire, blackbirder and Gorvhalsen.

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ McGuire leaped and peered across her shoulder.
A little two-masted schooner was romping by with all sails set. Night distances on water are deceptive; he judged that she was something around a mile or more away, and she could be plainly seen, moving like a phantom over the dark water, silvered with moonlight.
Ships were not often in those waters; whalers came only rarely, with now and then a blackbirder. She had the cut of a blackbirder or trader and was sailing free on the starboard tack under the same good breeze that was slatting the Heraldr's canvas. ”

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ Besides, the schooner, if she carried only a schooner crew, would not dare board anyway. She was too far away to know the need of boarding.
Together he and Eve in strained silence watched, and on and on went the little schooner. Gradually they had to give up believing that she might go about and beat up to them.
Nothing leaves hope at a lower ebb than the passing of a ship before the eyes of people in distress at sea, and McGuire knew that not once in a thousand nights was a ship likely to have been thereabouts; so the fall of an unexpected hope left them crushed. ”

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ Life had given her love, however brief, and she was of a race of women that asked nothing more of life. Her arms coiled about him, holding to him with the innocent unconsciousness of a child.
Words are not easily spoken when Death stands near, unfolding his long arms. Her eyes were bright as if with happiness. He stroked her hair. It was unjust that she should be tortured, then die. He felt bitter for her; his thoughts were vividly blasphemous, but kept in silence. ”

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ CHAPTER XVII WHEN LIFE HAS GIVEN LOVE WHEN McGuire had slammed the door shut, he waited, expectant, listening. Voices of men had come through, hot with threats. He held the emptied gun to his side, muzzle at the door, determinedly. Soon he glanced down, and turning it over idly, grinned a little, bitterly, hopeless. He tossed the gun to the deck. The men yelled. He would have shouted answers at them, but Eve was in the room, still on her knees by the bed. Her arms enfolded her face tightly. She was shutting out the world. ”

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ It increased at once, together her hope and her fears, the dread of what might happen to them and the belief that as long as the powerful Gorvhalsen lived he would not be helpless.
Hope touched Eve and would not leave her. Her only doubt was indicated in the repeated question if he could be sure.
McGuire was tormented by the wish to let her have all the hope in the world and the need to make her know that there was none. He tightened his arms about her, then slowly urged her toward the window. ”

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ With dread expectancy he had thought they would soon be crashing at the door. There was enough food and water in the stateroom to last for days, three or four, but nothing with which to meet an attack; and three or four days would be no better at the end than the next hour.
The men would not dare let anybody live who might some day tell the truth. Maritime Britain gave mutineers but short time for prayers.
If they delayed and got drunk—McGuire had a mad idea that warmed him for a moment and chilled too. With all of them senselessly drunk, not a head would be spared. ”

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ Eve was bravely wiping her eyes and she stood close against him. Child-like, she wanted the shelter of his arms; woman-like, unafraid if touching the man she loved. Eve did not want to die; but she had a strong heart and sheer faith and was unafraid. She slipped her arms about his neck and stared up at him, shaking her head slightly, with a sad smile.
“I am not sorry—about coming on the Heraldr. ”

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Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams — Chapter 17 (1922)

“ It was increasingly unlikely that all would be dead drunk at once. He had a slight sense of relief in the feeling that the chance would not be offered. After all, when death is just before one, inescapable, one may wait apathetically. ”

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