She had already left a gap a dozen feet wide between the Bellevite and herself.
It appeared that the machinery had been repaired, and that it was now capable of doing all that it had done before.

The steamer was the Killbright, for the lieutenant saw the name painted in several places about her forward deck.

She had suddenly shot ahead very unexpectedly to the captors, as they supposed they were, alongside of her.

A puff of wind had been favoring her before, and she darted away towards the northwest.

As she began to move, the lock-strings of her port battery were pulled as rapidly as possible.
It would have been impossible to help hitting the Bellevite, with the three guns fired into her at so short a distance.