Then the black hull grew dim and vanished.

His sailor's sympathies went with the escaping ship.
"She has got away! I am jolly glad of it," he cried.

"It was a dirty trick to open fire on her in that fashion.

Just how they served the _Andromeda_, the hounds, only we had never a gun to tickle them up in return." "Do you think that many of the poor creatures have been killed ?" asked Iris tremulously.

The din of ordnance and bursting shells had ceased as suddenly as it began.