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The Battery and the Boiler
R. M. Ballantyne
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Then the cable was cut, and, with its shackles and chains, allowed to go plump into the sea. Robin’s heart and soul seemed to go along with it, for, not expecting the event, he fancied it was lost for ever.
“Gone!” he exclaimed, with a look of horror.
“Not quite,” said Jim Slagg, who stood at Robin’s elbow regarding the operations with a quiet look of intelligence. “Don’t you see, Robin, that a wire-rope fit a’most to hold the big ship herself is holdin’ on to it.”
“Of course; how stupid I am!” said Robin, with a great sigh of relief; “I see it now, going round to the bows.”
At first the rope was let run, to ease the strain while the ship swung round; then it was brought in over the pulley at the bow, the paddles moved, and the return towards Ireland was begun. The strain, although gre. . . Read More
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