Disguised as the Flame

Speak to quarters! Say this to Herbert better! One broad side into it to please Captain Bush. Point of thumb, target! Prince Tofrely! Presenting Michael Redgrave as C.S. Foresters in Domino Man of the Sea for Ratio Hornblower.

Sir, retirement, I often live again in the details of my active career. But no single episode of that career stands out more vividly than that dusky autumn evening.

Then I stood on the deck beside Captain Freeman and sailed into the enemy stronghold. The patched fort capsule had been bent on. The name Port-a-Ché-Leat painted out. The name Flame substituted. I forced my job to remain calm and apparently unmoved.

But Freeman, beside me, had given up all pretense and was as excited as a schoolboy. There's the harp itself. There's that French West Indianman we saw go in this morning. Well, the lighter beside her.

Of course, they wouldn't unload her of the key. They'd put her cargo into lighters and send them up river to rule on parochon. At the moment, I'm more interested in the town's defenses on the shipping.

There are the ports of address and turn-ville on it. The twin light houses are on captive lahaves. The battery's there on that low ground, the other jetty. The batteries are going to be all greatest danger.

I don't expect the ports to find out what's going on in time to open fire. I don't see why anyone should find out there the ships this guy is and we've got playing P jackets over our uniform looks a lot of shipping further in might even be ships of the line they haven't got the yards across I've never been in this