[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER VII 4/16
It tilted forward and downward with a heart-stilling "Ssssooo"; the ladder disappeared; a line of brass-rimmed port-holes flashed past; a jet of steam puffed in Harvey's helplessly uplifted hands; a spout of hot water roared along the rail of the _We're Here_, and the little schooner staggered and shook in a rush of screw-torn water, as a liner's stern vanished in the fog. Harvey got ready to faint or be sick, or both, when he heard a crack like a trunk thrown on a sidewalk, and, all small in his ear, a far-away telephone voice drawling: "Heave to! You've sunk us!" "Is it us ?" he gasped. "No! Boat out yonder.
Ring! We're goin' to look," said Dan, running out a dory. In half a minute all except Harvey, Penn, and the cook were overside and away.
Presently a schooner's stump-foremast, snapped clean across, drifted past the bows.
Then an empty green dory came by, knocking on the _We're Here's_ side, as though she wished to be taken in.
Then followed something, face down, in a blue jersey, but--it was not the whole of a man.
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