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He broke off, with a nervous) Randall. Please understand that, ori
Laugh.
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Saturday, February 25.
Now that he had said it all you'll force me to put you in hand-Yarraville, British str, 5,205 tons,
he felt better.
"I'm not ashamed!" he said saV agely "I took a chance, and didn't come off. That's all."
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Randall gave him a look with eyes: grown wild, then picked up the jacket and began to put it on.
Capt. F. Ramsay, from, San Francisco, Lalchikok, Anchor- age.-Standard Oil Co.
Sunday, February 26. Adrastys, British. str. 4,948 tons, Capt. R. Lloyd. from Yoko- hamia, Taikoo Dock.-B. & S. Borneo, British str., 1,297 tons,
There had been a minute of com parative silence in the corridora; but now there was uproar again. People, were rushing back to the ballroom, and д ipt of them were going up to the decks.
"We might as well stay here for the time being," Cunlife said, sitting Capt. E. G. Rapley, from Sai- gon, buoy No. 89.-Yuen On on a chair, and looking rather like a samurai in the cork-padded jacket,
& Co. "We shan't be able to get a boat yet, Kwai Sang, British atr., 1,436 tons, and we'll only be jammed in crowd if we go out."
the
all
Capt. P. R. G, Caming, from Swatow, West Point Wharf.-- Philoctetes, British str., 7,212 tone,
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Capt. J. Ramsay, from Liver. pool, Holt's Wharf.-E. & S. Shun Kong, Chinese str., 1,408 tons,
The Rosario was one of those well-ordered ships. Not only did she fulfil every requirement of the Board of Trade, but she satisfied her owners and officers as well; and that's a very different thing.
Therefore, when a submerged les- berg tore the bottom out of her two hundred miles west of Cape Town,"
Randall began to rave up and down. her captain could feel satisfied that an old man. You wouldn't live much “You can afford to be calm. You're the future inquiry would not prove longer anyhow. You've done anything derogatory to the ship or you're likely to do in your life. But her officers.
I'm half your age. think of me! Think of the ideas I've got the That she had lost all her rafts things I want to do! I'd make my and three of her lifeboats
Capt. V. Dachre, from Bang- was self one of the greatest industrialisis nobody's fault,
All right; Til
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de Atlantic is an unpleasant crossing again-in South America.
Captain H. Jonge, from That's a In mid-winter.
new world for men like me
But
Manila, buoy No. A1-J.CJ.L
Randall and Cunliffe
Monday, February 27. you and your Law-you've sentenced me to death. I'd never have been on Baron Polwarth, British str., 2,211 deck five minutes after she struck. this bost if it hadn't been for the At that time they did not know that | Law!" anything very serious had occurred. They had gone on deck with a crowd of others to ace what was wrong The engines had stopped, but other- wise everything seemed normal.
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Cunliffe stood up quietly, locked the
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"So you think I'm afraid!" he snarled. "You think I'd run and get Everybody was whispering, like in a boat? Well, I wouldn't. I'm I'm enraged. Why a crowd in a music-hall waiting for not afraid.
this? should I be punished like the curtain to go up. A girl Death Even the Law wouldn't sen giggled. The
were tence me to that. But in its blind passengers mainly South Americans, and they nee that's what it's donu.. Why shuddered in the cold.
The night should I die?"
"Why should a lot of people die on was calm, but of Arctic bitterness, this ship?" Cunliffe asked quietly, and there was mist reaching from Suddenly Randall flung himself on the water to the level of the ship's his bunk and began to weep. A few Iside. One could look up to the minutes went by. The ship was still steady as a rock. Thousands of | 25"] mast-heads and see frigid stara gallons of water wer rushing into shining out of a black sky, which her every minutes, but nothing of it
1,997 dropped a snowflake now and then. could be heard or felt. She was sink: Katsu Maru, Japanese str..
tons, Capt. M. Katayama, from The ship itself seemed to be floating ing evenly by the keel
Now the uproar had moved to the
No. in clouds.
Karatsu, buoy
B27.- decks. In the lower parts of the ship
M.B.K. "Everybody go below again, please," there was silence. Randall and Cun-
officer called, coming along the life seemed to be the only people left Kaying, British str., 1,572 tone, deck.
"There's no danger and no- below, and Randall'e weeping was the thing to see; so please go below." only sound there. On deck ropes It was too cold for even the most were squeaking and blocka were adventurous South American to wait rattling:
were shouting and for a cancelled excitement. All but women were crying. The boats were Randall and Cunliffo went below being lowered. again.
Cunliffe laid his hand on Randall's They drew near the bridge, and shoulder. suddenly heard the captain speaking "Brace up, Randall. We'd better go on the telephone. they stopped deadjon deck." and listened.
"Shut the watertight doors," they ed his face with a handkerchief. He Randall leapt to his feet and wip- heard the captain say in a strained watched Cunliffe unlock the voice. "Draw the fires...
door. Pronto, Norwegian str., 1,283 tons, Switch He did not speak. He seemed to be aver to the emergency batteries.
Capt. Bj. Moller, from Swatow, In the corridor. Report the water-lever every three he wanted to run, but self-respect Touraine, Norwegian str., 3,590
ashamed of himself.
buoy No. B17.--K: Larsen & Co.' minutes. Every man stay at his made him keep pace with Cunliffe. station till further orders.”
They reached the deck in time to God!" Randall gripping Cunliffe by the mist whispered, see a life-boat, filled with people, go- abin's going down!"
Sailors were paying out ropes through The second officer came running the davila. Exaser, the second officer, down the ladder from the bridge, was on the deck; and there were
CLEARANCES, Cunliffe stepped into his way.
"What's the matter, Mr. Fraser? dozen women amongst them.
about forty passengers there, too, a
February 27. What's gone wrong?"
The Bangalore, for Yokohama. "Nothing much,
passengers stood huddled together and Chekiang, for Tientsin. Fraser snapped, seemed to be petrified. The shooting "You gentlemen had better go below." and crying had stopped. They were City of Vancouver, for Yokohama. "We're not children." Cunliffe said. utterly silent as they watched the|Gustav Diederichsen, for Swatow. "Something's happened, Fraser. What blades of the upraised oars sink down Hiroshi Maru, for Keelung. Is it?"
Fraser stopped and started at them. with aching eyes.
"Keep it to yourselves till every body knows. A growler's ripped the bottom out of her. She'll sink inside two hours; and there aren't enough boats."
Into the mist.
President Coolidge, American str.,
13,029 tons, Capt. K. A., Ahlin, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf. -Dollar S.S. Line.
tona, Captain T. Brun, from Manila, buoy No. A8.-Thore- sen. & Co.
| Hydrangen, for Swatow. Randall said frantically to Fraser: Kwai Sang, for Canton. Pong Tong, for Saigon.
"Was that the last boat?” Fraser nodded.
She's jammed, and we can't use the Sungahan Maru, for Canton.
"They might get another away. Pronto, for Singapore. donkey-engines. They may be able Tin Seng, for K. C.Wan.
He hurried on, and disappeared into clear her by band, but there isn't Touraine, for Shanghai. de the Marconi room. As he open- + Kreat chance."
ed the door they heard the Morse key Snow was falling more heavily now. buzzing:
Randall drew back, biting his lip. Tsinan, for Canton.
"SOS Randall whispered.
He made an effort and pulled him self together. Cunliffe, after the first shock, was calm.
Hata and shoulders were growing white.
The Rosario began to feel to port. very slowly and gently, like a sleep. "We'd better do as we're told," er making himself more comfortable Cunliffe said. "Let's go below!!! in bed. There was a shout, and the
Randall turned blindly to follow him women whimpered. Everybody lurch as he went towards the companion-
ed" towards the rail. Then the deck way. The first officer, coming from grew straight again. the bridge, preceded them down the steps,
and they heard him saying in loud volce: "There is no immediate danger, but all passengers and
go to their cabins, put on their warmest clothing and-their-life-saving jackets, and then gather in the bell-room.”-
to
Cunliffe.turned to Bandall, who was standing motionless beside him, his shoulders hunched up, his hands in his pockets, the snow falling over him.
"Let's go. below.
One might a well die warm as cold"
Randall loped after him like a dog.” They could hear the cars dipping in and on deck hammering at the jammed the water under the mist, and men and boat. They were alone in going be
How.
They entered the ballroom They
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He repeated it in Spanish; Cualiffe gripped Randall's arm dragged him down the steps.
"Come on! There'll be a rush, and. we don't want to be caught it"
in They ran to their cabin, went in, had never seen it empty before. 11 On: French river gunboat Argus.} and shat the door. The crowd of pas. looked vast and unreal. It stretched. sengers began rushing along the cor-away in front of them, the gilt orna- 6th Mar riders a moment afterwards. The mentation on the pillars trembling in allent ship was suddenly Alled with the uncertain light from the emer- [uproar-running feet, shouting voices, gency batterlos.
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-Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone- Woman screaming, a child crying, They walked up and down, Randall 6th Mar. Bulicases in surrounding cabins being setting quick, nervous pace. He Heights are referred to the datum of B) doh. Is midnight, 19h. ta noon. dragged from under bunks and open-stormed, bitterly at Cunliffe:
"You oughin't to have made us stay the largest scale Admiralty chart of Cunliffe lifted down Randall's life- in the cabin. We've lost our chance. the place and should be added to saving facket and tossed it towards We might have got away in one of depths, unless preceded by an asterisk
(*) when they should be subtracted. him. Randall,
shakily lighting the other bouta." cigarette, let it fall at his feet.
"What's the position now?" Randall
Feb. 28 to Mar. 6, 1938. asked
"I mean, so far as we are concerned 79′′
5th Mar.
**There are still some women to go,” A lot of men · have gone already. Those women on deck are wives who won't leave their husbands. We "We shall have to go together, I would have had a chance.”
Cunlite answered, with
“But you've told maj
Dats
faint mile.
Feb.
we go at all,” Cunliffe answered, "Perhaps strapping himself into his life-savİDE
12th Mar. facket. "I can't go without you, and that Iya lived so long that I really Tuck 28 I can't let you go alone. But I don't haven't any more claim on life, And expect we shall need to fight. about I couldn't let you go without me."
Wed. it. There aren't enough boats, and "Why not? I haven't boin sentenc-| those, there are will be taken up with a to death, I haven't been sentenc-- the woman and childen... Put on ed at all yet Fe
ass!" Bandall exclaim-are
I'm Just as fond of life as you ed violently,・・ #We won't have a are,” Cunlide" aniden PBut Twe Lynd
BAL chance unless we're in a boat. No me and I'm nearer death, and per- But I could arguit
your
body could live for, half an hour is haps that's why the idea of it down") Buf
water" as cold as thati bizn
"Put it on, anyway."--
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