Ransome's Quest
“They were already giving him odd looks for having ordered both ships to run out the guns as they approached the bay. Michael Witherington had crossed him once; he would not be allowed to do it again.
The bluffs blocked the light from the rising sun, blanketing Vengeance in deep shadows as Alexandra slipped through the mouth of the bay.
“By the mark, seven,” the leadsman called.
Shaw had used this bay as anchorage for both of his ships, and Sister Elizabeth, though of French rather than English ...design, was of a size with Alexandra. And the charts he’d taken from Shaw’s quarters showed plenty of draught room in the strait. But with barely forty feet of water below them, William worried at the wisdom of entering rather than anchoring outside of it and taking a launch in.
Lights flickered on the deck of Vengeance. William lifted his glass. A lantern, carried by Michael Witherington. Another figure moved behind him, followed by a third, also carrying a lantern. The diaphanous, undefined shape of the second figure—and given that Michael appeared about a head taller—gave William a tremor of joyful apprehension.MoreLess
The bluffs blocked the light from the rising sun, blanketing Vengeance in deep shadows as Alexandra slipped through the mouth of the bay.
“By the mark, seven,” the leadsman called.
Shaw had used this bay as anchorage for both of his ships, and Sister Elizabeth, though of French rather than English ...design, was of a size with Alexandra. And the charts he’d taken from Shaw’s quarters showed plenty of draught room in the strait. But with barely forty feet of water below them, William worried at the wisdom of entering rather than anchoring outside of it and taking a launch in.
Lights flickered on the deck of Vengeance. William lifted his glass. A lantern, carried by Michael Witherington. Another figure moved behind him, followed by a third, also carrying a lantern. The diaphanous, undefined shape of the second figure—and given that Michael appeared about a head taller—gave William a tremor of joyful apprehension.MoreLess
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