Some fell, but the survivors sprang at the Brazilians like famished wolves on their prey.

There was no more shooting.

Men grappled and fell, some into the water, others on deck, or they sprawled over the hatch and wrought in frantic struggle in the narrow cabin.

The fight did not last many seconds.

An engineer, finding a lever and throttle valve, roared to a sailor to take the wheel, and already the launch was curving seaward when Hozier shouted: "Where is Marcel ?" "Lyin' dead on the wharf," said Watts.
"Are you certain ?" "He was alongside me, an' 'e threw is 'ands up, an' dropped like a shot rabbit." "Then who has gone for Miss Yorke ?" "No one.