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`` I can assure you that those few lines will prove to mean more than the whole page about the Fall of Blankenberg . Now let us get down Channel and send those prices up a little higher . '' All traffic had stopped for London -- not so bad for the little _ Iota _ -- and we did not see a steamer that was worth a torpedo between Dungeness and the Isle of Wight . There I called Stephan up by wireless , and by seven o'clock we were actually lying side by side in a smooth rolling sea -- Hengistbury Head bearing N.N.W. and about five miles distant . The two crews clustered on the whale-backs and shouted their joy at seeing friendly faces once more . Stephan had done extraordinarily well . I had , of course , read in the London paper of his four ships on Tuesday , but he had sunk no fewer than seven since , for many of those which should have come to the Thames had tried to make Southampton .