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Title: The three midshipmen
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880
Subjects: Slave trade Africa -- Fiction
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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d Hemming, thechances are she has made us out already. Get a blue light ready, Adair.The frigate will see it by this time, and be on the look out for her.Rogers, see to the gun forward. You may be able to send a shot intothe felucca and knock away a spar, perhaps. These orders were promptly obeyed. While Jack sprang forward tofire the gun, Adairs blue-light, blazing up, cast a lurid glare over thefigures of the crew as they tugged at their oars, and which also extendedfar away across the surface of the ocean, while at the same moment thesharp report of the gun broke the hitherto almost perfect silence of thenight. Jack could not see whether his shot had taken effect, but he hadsome hopes that it had. Again, at Hemmings order, he fired, while, assoon as the first blue-light had gone out, Adair lighted another. Theireyes all the time were ranging the offing to try and discover the where-abouts of the frigate. There is her light, sir, shouted Jack from forward, and wheD theii « Pi • m
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o w a H Hfe THE THREE MIDSHIPMEN. 279 own blue-light grew dim, hers was seen shining like a star floating on thewater in the far distance. Thus they went on, burning blue lights, at longer intervals though thanat first, and firing shot after shot at the felucca. The slaver bore it atfirst without attempting to return the compliment; but at length, wher,Rogers hoped that he had hit her, her captain seemed to lose patience,and she opened fire on the boat in return. The latter, however, espe-cially in the night, offered too small an object to be easily hit. Still oneshot came whistling over their heads, and another struck the water closeto them, showing them, as Paddy said, that they were comfortably withinrange. I think that I have winged her, shouted Jack; if so, even shouldthe breeze increase, and she escape from us, the frigate will get hold ofher. Thus time sped on, the frigate and her boat showing at intervalstheir blue-lights, while the slaver, caught between them, continuedpretty

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