Max Pemberton

Name: The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT
Author: Max Pemberton

The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

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“The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT”, published in 1901, is a work by Max Pemberton. It explores elements such as Kenner, cruiser and Messenger.

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ Although the cruiser ceased to fire at her, and lay playing upon her with the spreading radiance of her magnificent light, every man on deck awaited the moment when his body should shrink under the cold touch of the sea, and he should be drawn down in the vortex at once to death and to burial.
This very uncertainty, and the fact that the yacht continued to float in the face of her sore plight, added pitiably to the sufferings of the men. Burke had staggered upon deck at the first shock, and now stood muttering on the bridge, unable to gather his wits for a coherent order. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ To many of these a moment's warmth, a ray of heat, the shelter of a dry coverlet, would have been worth ten times their share of the vast plunder which now swam in the lapping seas of the saloon. But for them there was no relief. Water washed in the galley fires; the engine-room was full of it; the whole yacht reeked of it; and in the general desolation the men cried for land as children cry for the homes they have left and the havens of their comfort.
At what time—if ever—this wretched ship would have made Corunna no man may presume to tell. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ Once in sight of Montevideo every man would have breathed a new breath of hope and of enterprise; but cooped up in a small yacht, with one of the fastest cruisers floating at their heels, and the necessity before them of touching at a Spanish port, what anticipation of ultimate success could the best among them entertain? ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ I've shot men, you'll remember, and it ain't particular pleasant to hear 'em talking. The sea's full of 'em to-night; I can see 'em every way I turn!"
Messenger shrugged his shoulders.
"That comes of having an imagination; it's a dangerous thing to cultivate recollections. I'll have to sit up with you; or, better still, you'll have to go to bed."
"I think not," said Kenner. "I guess I'd want a draught stronger than any medicine-man could give me to sleep tonight. I'm going to see it through, if it's a week."
"It won't be that," answered Messenger shortly ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ It's amazing how many things you think of when they can't possibly be of any use to anyone. I had my doubts about him, it is true, and was weak enough to take another man's estimate of them. That's where the folly came in."
"There," replied Kenner, "I'm with you all along; a big project means a big mind, and only one. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ But Parker invariably assured him that it was all right—"perfectly right, sir"—and he went back to the book he could not read and the cigar which he did not care to smoke. Toward six bells in the middle march his uneasiness became as profound as Fisher's had been some nights gone, and he even went the length of waking Messenger, who started up at once and felt for his pistol, expecting to hear of a new trouble with the men, or of anticipation of it. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ Once or twice she passed ships, and signalled to them that she needed no assistance; but the men, wearying in the work, became stupid with liquor, and lay about wet to the skin, or shivering with the deadly chill of exposure, which for many was to pass so soon into the chill of death. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT (1901)

“ Why, we're on the road to be straightened out, every one of us. Look at it any way you like, you can't bluff it, for the hand ain't good enough. And I've had the notion ringing in my head ever since last night, when I dreamed we were took."
"Look here!" said Messenger angrily, "Don't let us have that woman's nonsense again. I can't see that the danger's insurmountable. It's great, of course; but we'll have to go into Corunna under a false name for coal, and then to risk it through the Doldrums. I should call the chance an even one."
Kenner had more words to say ”

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