Frederick And Geraldine (Part 17)

Fortunately, there were five modern toilets having Lavatory flushing cisterns like those invented by Sir Harrington in one thousand five hundred ninety-six, being Built near the kitchen because the air in this room was dry. This cook-room was constructed in a place where it was deemed safe To have a cooking fire; it had a good layer of lime With an air space to insulate the brickwork from the unsafe Adjacent timber; the brick walls were expensive at that time. The room had two brick fireplaces and boiling was the method Of cooking while three coppers with lids were set in the brickwork. With some funnels passing through the deck head, they were connected To protect the kitchen full of steam by providing a perk, Firing on the upper deck could mean a shot going into The rigging; the sailors and the passengers took the pumps To extinguish this fire, doing all they had to do. The pumps made of leather were assembled from the dumps And coupled every fifty feet with brass fittings; their length Was about twenty-three meters; this sucking warm engine Was made by John Lofting in 1690; its strength Was pumped by a team of men working to relieve the tension. The fire was small, but it could extend to the cabin cruisers, Which were nearby; while the men were working hard to escape The danger, the strange man was one of the fast movers And deliberately entered the gun room; Cruz saw his shape Entering and descended the stairs in a hurry To stop him; he entered the gun room and took a gun. The stranger turned to Cruz and shut him, but his eyes got blurry, When the room was suddenly filled with the rays of the sun. (Cruz shut this man in the face. Both of them fell down. The women were in a boat and Fargo made efforts to bring them to the shore.) A big wave hit the boat, causing Geraldine to go Overboard; she fell off the boat into the water. Fargo jumped into the sea to save her and started to swim below The water; she screamed for help; the waves rose up to scatter. She could not remember how she had fallen; her head and arms Were barely visible above the waves; Fargo swam Toward her scream and brought her aboard, '' you're safe from harms.'' She vomited, ''I want to be far away from where I am.'' Meanwhile, Bella lost her balance, and within a split second, She fell off the boat and tried in vain to hold onto Chiara's hands while asking for help, but her fate beckoned When a giant jellyfish stung her arm on back to 'fronto'. Chiara saw her treading the water and moving her head, But she lost the sight of her after a few seconds ''She's gone, ' Said Chiara; after saving Geraldine, Fargo said ''she's not dead, ''He turned around the boat, ''Look, that jellyfish is coming on! '' (Fargo jumped into the sea to rescue Bella. He brought her aboard, but she had been underwater much more than she could resist. His resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful. All along the ragged shore, there were a lot of stones under the water. They got down out of the boat and walked in the water while bringing the boat to the shore. Meanwhile, ten pirates, after swimming in the water, climbed on the carrack to kill everyone on the board. Fortunately, they didn't see the boat.) (To be continued...) Poem by Marieta Maglas