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HANG FIRE - Chapter 15

Gunfire drummed a staccato against the glim-filled sky, peppering the air around the

Swift. Captain Hink shouldered the wheel against the strain as Mr. Ansel tucked the Swift’s

wings.

Captain Hink knew his airship better even than the skin on his bones. And he knew they

had one shot of disabling the big blower of a vessel in front of them.

Mr. Guffin’s canon shot had to hit true. Otherwise they’d best give up their glim stake to

Les Mullins and his claim-jumping pirate crew aboard the bigger, more powerful Iron Draught

and run like hell to the horizon.

Captain Hink’s breathing gear hung half off the bottom of his goggles. Breathing gear

wouldn’t do a man much good if all he was doing was holding his breath, waiting to see how

much longer he was going to stay living.

The nine-pound Napoleon kicked to life with a gunpowder cloud of fire, filling the Swift

with black smoke.

Mr. Guffin’s shot got off clean, clipped one of the Iron Draught’s port fans and must

have done some further damage from the racket of explosions that followed.

“What the devil was Mullin’s carrying on that old barge?” Captain Hink said.

Mr. Seldom, his second, had some kind of rule against stringing too many words together

all at once. But this occasion appeared to override his predilections. “Gunpowder,” he said, then

as another blast roared out. “Dynamite. A crate or two of nitroglycerin.”

A piece of metal the size of a small pony came hurdling toward them.

Fast. Too fast for even the Swift to dodge.

Captain Hink spun the wheel hard starboard and yelled, “Get down!”

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