In a couple of weeks or so, the Harbor Police always finds ten to two dozen over there suicides, bastard babies, old barge captains that lost their balance out on a sleety night attending to towropes, now and then some gangster or other.
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The British flagship " Victory " was just such a victim, and during the week of ferocious storms which followed the battle, Redmill nursed his stricken superior back to Gibraltar by means of an enormous towrope attached with great difficulty to the bow of " Victory " and at the other end to Redmill's own cabin on " Polyphemus ".
