The Red City : a Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington
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*' Halloa! He 's going to talk!*' A cannon flash was followed by a ball, which struck the rail. **Not bad,*' said the captain, and turning, saw De Courval on the deck. * * Are you hit, man ? ' ' he cried. **Not badly.'' But the blood was running freely down his stocking as he staggered to his feet. '^Get him below!'' **No, no!" cried De Courval. The mate ripped open his breeches. '*A bad splinter wound, sir, and an ugly bruise. ' ' In spite of his protests, they car- ried him to the cabin and d...id some rude sea surgery. Another sharp fragment had cut open his cheek, but what Dr. Rush would have called ** diachylon plas- ter" sufficed for this, and in great pain he lay and listened, still for a time losing blood very freely. The corvette veered and let go a broadside while the cap- tain looked up at the rigging anxiously. * * Too much THE RED CITY 175 sea on," he said. **I will lay his damn ribs on Abse- com Beach, if he holds on." Apparently the corvette knew better, and ma- noeuvered in hope to catch a too wary foe, now flying along the shallow coast in perilous waters.
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