The Phantom Ship. Фредерик Марриет

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СКАЧАТЬ Kloots, as pilot of this vessel, I tell you that you must prepare for very bad weather."

      "Bad weather!" said Kloots, rousing himself from a deep reverie.

      "Yes, bad weather, Mynheer Kloots. There never was a vessel which fell in with—what we have just seen, but met with disaster soon afterwards. The very name of Vanderdecken is unlucky—He! he!"

      Philip would have replied to the sarcasm, but he could not, his tongue was tied.

      "What has the name of Vanderdecken to do with it?" observed Kloots.

      "Have you not heard, then? The captain of that vessel we have just seen is a Mynheer Vanderdecken—he is the Flying Dutchman!"

      "How know you that, pilot?" inquired Hillebrant.

      "I know that, and much more, if I chose to tell," replied Schriften; "but never mind, I have warned you of bad weather, as is my duty;" and, with these words, Schriften went down the poop-ladder.

      "God in heaven! I never was so puzzled and so frightened in my life," observed Kloots. "I don't know what to think or say.—What think you, Philip? was it not supernatural?"

      "Yes," replied Philip, mournfully. "I have no doubt of it."

      "I thought the days of miracles had passed," said the captain, "and that we were now left to our own exertions, and had no other warnings but those the appearance of the heavens gave us."

      "And they warn us now," observed Hillebrant. "See how that bank of clouds has risen within these five minutes—the moon has escaped from it, but it will soon catch her again—and see, there is a flash of lightning in the north-west."

      "Well, my sons, I can brave the elements as well as any man, and do my best. I have cared little for gales or stress of weather; but I like not such a warning as we have had to-night. My heart's as heavy as lead, and that's the truth. Philip, send down for the bottle of schnapps, if it is only to clear my brain a little."

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