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“No one! What do you mean?”

“Tt's a fact. Bogdanoff has just passed through; he said it was all smashed to pieces — had caught fire, and they'd abandoned it. He went out just as the bridge fell in — right on to me — I wasn’t touched — lucky!”

“Where's the Admiral?”

At this moment there was another explosion quite close to me, and something from behind hit me in the right leg. It was not hard, and I felt no pain. I turned round to look, but none of my men were to be seen. Were they killed, or had they gone below?

“Haven't we any stretchers?” I heard Danchich ask anxiously.

“For whom?” I said.

“Why! for you. You're bleeding.”

Looking down I saw that my right