The Blockade Runner — page 132: what you’re looking at

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THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. ; 133 CHAPTER XVIL. THE CHASE AND THE ESCAPE, Ir was the Avenger’s first victory over an armed foe; but it had been dearly purchased, for a third of her crew had been put out of action, and her hull and spars and rigging were a sight to witness. Her smokestack escaped injury, partly because it shut up like a telescope, and during the late action was scarcely visible above the bulwarks. One board the privateer the carpenter had ee to the officer in charge that there were several feet of water in the hold, and that it was not possible to get at the opening, through which the sea poured in a cataract. The removal of the wounded was therefore hurried, and every preparation made to leave the sinking vessel to her fate. : When the prisoners so far taken were marshaled on the Avenger’s deck, it was found that, beside the wounded, seventeen of the Swiftwing’s crew had been secured. Captain Graham then ordered the cruiser to go after his other boats, which were still chasing two of the privateer’s launches. , Bentham felt certain that Dick Powers was in one of the boats, and that both of them would be speedily overhauled was a foregone conclusion, as the moon- C@Micoooks (CO 5}