Form Line of Battle!
“As one week followed another the Hyperion maintained her seemingly endless patrol, a great, empty rectangle of open sea, broken only occasionally by the distant coast of France or the brooding shadow of Cozar Island.
Twice they met with the sloop Chanticleer, but Bolitho learned little to ease his mounting apprehension. The sloop’s role was almost as wretched as his own, for the unpredictable Mediterranean weather with its sudden squalls and maddening calms played havoc with so small a vess...el. Bellamy, her commander, was as perplexed as he was by the complete lack of news from Pomfret’s headquarters. There was more rumour than fact. It was said the French were bombarding St Clar with siege guns, that the fighting had moved so close to the town it was hardly safe to walk in the streets.
But aboard Hyperion the vague speculation was as unimportant as it was remote, for on her crowded decks the reality was only today, and the day after that.MoreLess
Twice they met with the sloop Chanticleer, but Bolitho learned little to ease his mounting apprehension. The sloop’s role was almost as wretched as his own, for the unpredictable Mediterranean weather with its sudden squalls and maddening calms played havoc with so small a vess...el. Bellamy, her commander, was as perplexed as he was by the complete lack of news from Pomfret’s headquarters. There was more rumour than fact. It was said the French were bombarding St Clar with siege guns, that the fighting had moved so close to the town it was hardly safe to walk in the streets.
But aboard Hyperion the vague speculation was as unimportant as it was remote, for on her crowded decks the reality was only today, and the day after that.MoreLess
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