Ninety-three By Victor Hugo, Aline Delano

Ninety-three By Victor Hugo, Aline Delano: "In a tempest Yes and in moments like these Truly God alone can save us said Boisberthelot All were silent leaving the carronade to its horrible uproar The waves beating the ship from without answered the blows of the cannon within very much like a couple of hammers striking in turn Suddenly in the midst of this inaccessible cireus where the escaped cannon was tossing from side to side a man appeared grasping an iron bar It was the author of the catastrophe the chief gunner whose criminal negligence had caused the accident the captain of the gun Having brought about the evil his intention was to repair it Holding a handspike in one hand and in the other a tiller rope with the slip noose in it he had jumped through the to the deck below"