When I went aft to find out if one of the boats could not be cleared, I noticed that a steering-gear box had been prised open again.

I had time for only a second's glance, but I was sure the damage had not been done by a bullet.

So the _Andromeda_ was doomed to be lost, no matter what happened.

By -- --, forgive me, Miss Yorke, but this kind of thing makes one savage." "Perhaps it is matterless now.

Coke will stand by the rest of us in our struggle for life, at any rate.