3/10 "Your eyes are younger and sharper than mine. Do the bulwarks seem shattered ?" I took a long look. "Everything seems quite right except the fore-topmast, which has snapped off, and is hanging in a tangle down to the deck." "But the fire ?" "That only looks, sir, as if they'd got a stove in the forecastle, and had just lit the fire with plenty of smoky coal." "Hah! That's all I can make out. We've come to something at last, Mr Herrick." "Think so, sir ?" I said respectfully. "Pilate; all afire." "Think so ?" Ching nodded. |