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 One of the pipemen, (whose name was Farley), without turning his head, growled under his helmet, "Why didn't yuh haul her out o' here long ago?"

"Why don't she come out now?" Moore cried. "That's why I didn't. Because she won't! That's why! Because she can't!"

The tugs, whistling and panting around her, got their lines on the after bitts and pulled and shouldered and struggled noisily. But by the time they got her under way, the crew of the Sachsen, alarmed by the screams of the stewardess, were already diving overboard, and Lieutenant Moore's men were retiring from a blaze that seemed to spit back their streams on them in spurts of steam.

Moore ordered Farley to go below decks and warn Captain Keighley and