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CHAPTER XVIII
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
'It seemed shabby to leave you to do all the fighting, but if I had come
into it I'm afraid you'd have been left without a ship.'
The speaker was Lieutenant Strang, who stood on the deck of G2, which had
risen again and was lying alongside the launch.
'It was your fellows who won the battle for us,' answered Captain
Carrington cheerfully. 'I wish to congratulate you on the possession of
two such men as Williams and Johnston.' Williams stepped forward and
touched his cap.
'If you please, sir, the captain here and his son and Horan, they did as
much as any. But all on 'em fought like good 'uns.'
'What are your losses, sir?' asked the lieutenant of Captain Garrington.
'Two killed, three rather badly wounded.'
'You got off lightly. There don't seem to be many Turks left.'
'Only nine alive, and of those four are wounded.'
'Are the launch's engines all right?'
'Nothing wrong with them,' answered the captain, 'so Williams tells me.
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