Let go your pistol at first sight of them, and, if you can, come abaft to join us before we strike." I could tell by the tone in which he spoke that he took in every inch of our peril, and trembled, not for himself, but for some one else.
The maiden was loth to quit her post; for she, too, knew the risk of it and claimed it as her right.

But when I told her the Captain had so ordered, and required her at the helm, she obeyed without another word.
Then followed a quarter of an hour that seemed like a lifetime.

As I stood craning my neck forward, gazing under my hands seaward, there crowded into my memory visions of all my past life.

I seemed to see the home of my boyhood, and looked again into my mother's face.

And I stood once more before my case in the shop outside Temple Bar, and listened to Peter Stoupe humming his psalm-tune, and heard my types click into the stick.