All my church people said, praise the Lord. If you grew up in old school church like I did, but welcome back to Conversations with Carrie. I'm so happy to have you here. I felt like the Lord put this on my heart and it was something that I've been dealing with. So I was like, let me go and share with my people real quick. The Lord's just been dealing with me around hope. Hope gets my expectations up and then when my expectations are not met, I'm disappointed and I don't like feeling disappointed. So I figured, well, there's certain things I know that Lord's gonna do because he's promised or I just feel like let me just kind of follow along and not hope because if I don't hope, then I don't have to face the disappointment that comes along with it. But y'all, that's nowhere to no way to live. So I've been really studying hope and I wanted to come on here and share a little bit around what the Lord has revealed to me around hope. So first, I'm gonna take y'all old school and give y'all a little definition of hope. Hope is a desire and expectation centered in God for something to happen, even a feeling of trust. And I was like, well, Lord, I trust you, you know, and I realized though that my hope was starting to wane a little bit, not the same thing as faith because it's like, Lord, I know that you're capable, I know who you are, but I was just like, do I hope for it because if you don't do it, then I'm disappointed in you and you know, we're taught, don't be disappointed in the Lord, you know, or I think we're taught those things, but we're human and we have human reactions. So that's why I wanted to take you to the story of Sarah and Abraham because that is a perfect example of somebody who had human reactions and made some dumb decisions. So let me start from the beginning. Let me start from the very beginning so you understand like where, like a little more background about Sarah. So Abraham was given a promise from God and he was saying, God told him, listen, you're gonna be a father of many nations. Now keep in mind, Abraham and Sarah did not have any kids at this time, but God made him a promise. And so he was like, just leave your family. I need me, leave your father's land and I'm going to show you somewhere to go.  You'll find out along the way, I'll show you. And so Abraham's like, okay, I'm gonna be obedient to the Lord's call and I'm gonna get up and go where I'm supposed to go. And now Sarah at this time is 65 years old. So think about it, she's probably sitting her way, she's probably like, we got a comfortable life here. We good to go. And all of a sudden her husband's like, yeah, the Lord's called me out here. I don't know where though, but he's called me out. So come on, let's go.  I'm gonna believe what the Lord told him. And so much happens along the way. They face a famine. Sarah was fine, y'all, because at 65, Egyptians actually want to take her and make her wife a pharaoh. So you know, she was fine. 65, check, come on. That will water was doing all kinds of things. So, but anyway, so she's, you know, all this stuff that they're facing along the way. And at the same time, God is still promising Abraham, saying like, yes, I'm gonna make you a father of many nations. And for those of us who grew up in Children's Church, Abraham had many sons. Many sons had father Abraham, if you remember that. But so she's like, okay, Lord's making all these promises to my husband, but your girl is barren. They had not had kids. So at this point, she's probably like, she had probably given up hope that she was gonna have kids. And that's the Lord's promising her these things. She gets older and age. I think this was that maybe 25 years later at this point. And the Lord confirms his promise to Abraham. And he's like, yes, I am going to give you kids. I'm going to make you, I'm gonna provide an heir and your descendants will be more than the stars in the sky. But I'm sure she's probably like, okay, well, I'm gonna go ahead and help this situation out. And I think this is where Sarah gets the bad rep because we hear about her taking her maiden Hagar and giving her to Abraham to sleep with and saying like, oh, I'll just bear kids through her. And people are always like, oh my gosh, I cannot believe she would do that.  I want you to think about it though. Sarah had been hoping for over 25 years 25 years, some of us can't even go a month.   She, this was 25 years at this point that she had been waiting and waiting and hoping. And you know what, actually, she probably was like, okay, it's probably gonna occur in some other way because it ain't coming through me. I'm old. She was looking at it with human eyes. And isn't that what we always do? We take our circumstance and we look at the reality of it, not thinking about the truth that God told us. God made a covenant with Abraham and told him that he was going to be a father of many nations. Sarah probably in her humanity was like, okay, well, you know, let me help this along. And I think we often, we often look at that like, oh gosh, she just didn't have enough faith. Y'all 25 years, the Lord told me not yet eight years ago concerning the husband, eight years. I was thinking, if I had known eight years, y'all probably would have acted a fool for at least a good six. I'm gonna keep it straight up with you, keep it 100. Because I'm like, if I had known it was gonna be this long and it still has not happened, but I still believe because I see things, I read the Bible and I believe what the Lord has said. But I'm just gonna keep it real. After 25 years, I'll be like, oh yeah, let me go on. And I've probably been trying to do it myself as well. And that's what Sarah did. And we can't fault her for that because she just, she was having a human reaction to a promise and keep in mind, the Lord had made the promise to Abraham. It's not like he had came and talked to her about anything yet. So at this point, so she was like, good, cool. Let me go get Hagar. Let me go have a baby, my husband have a baby with her. And of course all of us are like, that's completely crazy. But when you are desperate, when you are just at your last thread of hope, you're like, let me figure something out. And I believe that's where she was at. But you know what? God is so good because that's not where he left the story in. So either way goes, yes, she has a baby. Abraham has a baby with Hagar. Hagar and Sarah have some beef.  So all of that, all of that. And even after Hagar has Ishmael or Ishmael, however you want to pronounce it, y'all know, do what you need to do. Look up how to pronounce the name. God still came through. And this is actually when God changes Sarah's name. And he changes her name and says in Genesis 17, verse 15, then God said to Abraham, as for Sarai, your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her. And indeed I will give you a son by her.  Kings of peoples will come from her. I want you to keep in mind, this is after she's been like, okay, well, I'm done. Let me figure this out. I'm gonna go ahead and have Abraham at the time sleep with Hagar and we don't get a baby that way. The Lord speaks blessings over her and changes her name after that.  It's not about me. And again, she had a very human reaction. We've had very human reactions to a lot of stuff lately and the Lord is still faithful to fulfill his promise. And through that, even that, like, you know, Abraham was like, okay, well, cool. You know, Ishmael will be the, you know, the descendant says come from him. But God said in verse 19, but God said, no, come on. But God said, no.  If this doesn't make you have some hope, I don't know what does. And then it gets even better, y'all, it gets even better because in verse, let's see, in verse 18, excuse me, in chapter 18, God promises Isaac and he even confirms the promise of Isaac coming. And that's when some, I guess you could say some travelers, but it's actually, it was the angel of the Lord coming to visit and they're talking to, they're talking to Abraham. And then in verse nine, in chapter 18, verse nine, they said, where is Sarah, your wife? And he said, they're in the tent. And he says, I will surely return to you at this time next year and behold, Sarah, your wife will have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent door. Sarah, I'm liking her more and more. She's probably like looking up the tent like, now say, what now? Now you say, I'm gonna do what? Sarah was at this point, I think Sarah was probably 89 because then they tell her the next year that she's gonna have a baby. So, and she had a baby at 90.  Now I want you to think about this. You were being told that at 89 years old, you're gonna have a baby. And so Sarah laughed to herself saying, in verse 12, laughed to herself saying, after I've become old, shall I have pleasure? My Lord being old also. And the Lord said to Abraham, why does Sarah laugh? Shall I indeed bear a child when I am so old? Is anything too difficult for the Lord? I love that. Is anything too difficult for the Lord? Really? Being for something. If you are praying for something, believing in God for something, for what, throw your expectations out the window because God can do it in His way and in His timing. For me, it's like, okay, there's so much. Lord, just bless me with a new job. There's a lot that has happened. So I know that He's working in my life. I know that He's working behind the scenes, even when I can't see it. And so even when I feel like, gosh, Lord, I'm afraid to hope because I don't want to be disappointed, He will send confirmation. He will provide knowledge for you to know.  I still have wonderful things planned for you. If you just have faith, if you continue to trust, just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not happening. So even here, Sarah was like, she's being told from the Lord like, hey, she's overhearing it. Like, you're going to have a child.  And Lord's like, why are you laughing? Didn't I just say that you was going to have a child? Is anything too hard for the Lord?  I'm like, Lord, come talk to me because Lord knows I didn't kind of been like, nah, that's probably not going to happen. And then Lord will send confirmation. And that's what I want this to be for you today. I want you to look at this as confirmation that Lord is going to do what He said He would do. He is not a man that He should lie. He is going to do what He said He would do. I want to give you some encouragement. As I've been studying hope, and I've been like, Lord, you're going to have to help me with this because sometimes I feel like it's a little harder than what I imagined. It's been a longer wait. A lot has happened in my life recently, but he's so good because there's so many wonderful things to be grateful for. But I want you to think about hope. And he gave me Romans 1513, and it says, I pray that God, the source of hope, feel you completely with joy and peace because you trust Him, then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. So as I read that, I was like, okay, what is that telling me about hope? That's telling me that one hope comes from God. I cannot have it. I always looked at it as like, well, I need to have hope. I need to have hope. No, hope comes from God. Enjoy and peace accompany hope. So when I allow myself to hope, I can actually have joy and peace about my situation. I can actually walk in contentment. And then the Holy Spirit's power is required for confident hope. So again, the Lord sent His helper. He sent His helper to provide you with help in having hope. He doesn't even leave it up to us to try to have this amazing hope. He says, I have provided a helper for you to help you have confident hope. So you need God's spirit living inside of you. It's not something that you can get on your own. You have to read the scripture and let that speak to you. Because also in Romans 15, the Lord says such things were written in the scripture long ago to teach us and the scripture gives us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently. And that's exactly what the story of Sarah did. I love that she had very human reactions.  Because if I need a baby and I want Abraham to have a baby then I'm gonna need to do it my way.  And I think some people write these stories off as like, oh, well, that's just, that's what the Lord did back in the Old Testament. No, the Lord can do that in your life right now, right here, today if you would just believe and allow yourself to have hope. So I'm gonna pray for us because sometimes we need the hope. Lord, some things did not happen for us that we thought were gonna happen. But Father, I ask that you just bless us and infuse us with new hope, with hope that just surpasses anything that we can imagine, Lord, it's your words as you are able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we could dare ask, think, or imagine. So Lord, we are standing in hope today. We hope that you are going to do what you said that you were going to do because we know that he who promises faithful. And we just thank you, we thank you right now for the manifestation of the promise in our lives. So I ask that you are encouraged today. Again, I wrote a short story about this over on carryly.com. Please check it out and be sure to like and subscribe. Be blessed.


Our third presenter this afternoon is Brian Sergi from EPP, whose title is Integrating Climate Change and Air Quality Benefits in Studies of Public Perceptions and Policies for Emissions Reductions. This is a photo of the forbidden city in Beijing, China. The photo is taken from the same location but on two separate days. On the left you see what is known as a blue sky day, where the air is clear. And on the right you see a day with low visibility due to heavy air pollution. Now unfortunately, days like the one on the right here are quite common in Beijing and indeed much of China. Estimates suggest that up to a million people die in China every year because of excessive air pollution. This makes it the fifth leading risk mortality factor in the entire country. Now unfortunately, air pollution is not just a China problem. Even though the US has taken great strides to clean its air in the last few decades, it's still estimated that 150,000 people die each year because of air pollution just in this country. So what is the cause of all this air pollution? Well the primary culprit is the burning of fossil fuels, primarily for electricity, heat and transportation. Now you may have heard of fossil fuels in the context of another problem and that is climate change. If you've been following the news, you may have seen that this winter the Arctic experienced extreme temperature anomalies up to 27 degrees warmer Fahrenheit than is traditional for the average. These sort of temperature anomalies are likely to become more and more common if we continue to emit large amounts of carbon dioxide through the burning of fossil fuels. So burning fossil fuels is responsible for air pollution and also a major driver of climate change. Now traditionally, most researchers and policy makers have thought about these two issues separately. But what if we thought about them together and tried to create optimized frameworks for dealing with both problems at the same time? That question is the subject of my research in engineering and public policy here at Carnegie Mellon University. Using a range of interdisciplinary methods from surveys to engineering and energy models I study how people value improvements to climate change and human health and how to design more optimal policies to address both of these issues simultaneously. Using a range of surveys in the US and China we have for example studied people's willingness to support improvements to climate change and human health and have found that in general people support tackling both of these measures and have stronger support for emissions reductions when they tackle both of the problems at the same time. So using the information from these surveys I'm now working to develop an optimization model that will look at how the location of different emissions interventions such as wind and solar power will impact the climate and health benefits that result from these interventions. We hope to use the results from this model to inform policies that would better integrate climate and health benefits and maximize those two and we believe that will also help to maximize public support for these policies. By integrating climate change and human health I hope to advance policies that get us closer to a more sustainable and energy abundant future for all. Thank you.


Call all hands. Beat the quarters. Tell me better. One broadside into it, please, Captain Bush. Pointes on target. Twin stops ready. Have sea-ass foresters, indomitable man of the sea, or ratio hornblower? We're fighting them for a very life. The Baltic was our lifeline of supply. French privateers raiding our traders there must be quite tight. One of these, the Blanche Fleur, had already caused much damage and I was resolved to track her down. She'd been reported entering the Baltic only a day or so ahead of us. Our squadron had seen no action since we'd had to shoot our way in through the straits a few days earlier. The officers and men at the Nonsuch were growing restless, but one morning, there was a sudden hail from the market. Hail! A sail! Maybe the Blanche Fleur. How will you say it? That's French Corvette. If it's the Blanche Fleur, we're in luck. I'll trouble you to give me the glass if you please, Captain Bush. Aye, aye, sir. Can you see her, sir? Ah, it's a confounded fog. Yes, I can just make out her topsoil. Is she a 20 gunner? A Corvette? She's not far off. It's hard to tell, though, in this mist. Whoever she is, she's coming straight for us. Call all hands and man the guns, please, Captain. Aye, aye, sir. All hands on deck. Run out the guns and stand by. Run out the guns and stand by! Excitedness. Yes, she's tacky. Aye, sir. She's on the port, tack, bearing east by north, east. If we get away, it must be a Frenchman. Set all sail, Captain Bush, will you please? Aye, aye, sir. Set all sail! Loose the royals! And also, of course, two points to starboard, Captain. We'll intercept her. Aye, aye, sir. Two points to starboard! Up with the stencils! Yes, I can see her better now. She's no Corvette. She appears to be quite unarmed. She's not a hard chaser, I'm afraid, Captain Bush. Then why did she tack the moment she cited it, sir? Any ship beating up for the sound would have to tack here. I suppose you're right, sir. I don't think so, Captain Bush. She looks like a merchant man. Hey, Mars Head, what do you see there? Can you make out her colors? No, Captain. We'll soon find out. Hold her, of course, Bush, and we'll intercept her anyway. I can see her now, sir. She's wearing British gowns. Oh, she's a British gown! Excellent. Now, at least, we'll get some news and information. Badly needed, too. Lay a course to pass her within hail, if you please. Aye, aye, sir. Starboard a point, quartermaster. Get those stencils in the game, Mr. Hurst. Aye, aye, sir. She's a merchant man, all right. I can see her cargo now. Looks like timber. I can't be too careful in these waters. Better ask her for the private code, Captain. Very good, sir. Mr. Hurst, signal her to give the merchant ship private code numeral. Aye, aye, sir. We'll see what she replies. Here comes her flag, sir. A-T... numeral 5-7. That's the correct reply for last winter, sir. She's loaded with cargo, sir. She's going to be home to receive the new code. Signal her to heave to her, please. They've heave to her, Mr. Hurst. Aye, aye, sir. There. She's backing her men top, sir, but... Wait. What flag she's hoisted? Look, sir. Yes, I see. That's the yellow flag she's hoisting now, sir. The fever flag. Must have some kind of pestilence aboard her. Look what she's hoisted there. The yellow flag! So it is. I'll wager she's got the pox aboard her. She's attached to her. That must be her captain there on the poop deck. Give me the trumpet. Oh! Sir, we must... ...multiply turn his round to his side. Get much of them. Any news of her import? The patient must be violent for us to hear his shrieks way over here. Yes, sir. It's horrible. You may be hit with it, and now, sir, they say the Tsar is meeting Bernard Conference. Somewhere in... The Tsar is not quite right. Was he trying to distract me for all that groaning and shouting? Could I have maybe just one man? Sounded more like a chorus. And this captain... I felt a sudden stab and suspicion. He said all the right things, but wasn't he ashamed? Too glib, a little too professional. Still, if you were telling the truth, it was a big risk, of course. And yet a man must make decisions. Captain Bush, send the boat for the boarding party over to that ship. Sir, which small box aboard? We have hundreds of men crammed into close quarters here. It would sweep us like wildfire. I appreciate your concern for the man, Bush, but do you suppose I'd risk their lives without sufficient reason? No, sir, of course not, Clive. I merely... I know from your face, Bush.  Well, I'm sorry, Captain. The order stands. Come along. I want to get another look at that. All right, sir. Both of them, man the whaler with the boarding party. Aye, aye, sir. Right to the deck, all. Lower on to the whaler. But Abel Green doesn't look over there. Yes, that mate. She's got the yellow flag. We have ordered to board her. No, Doth, mate. I ain't boardin' no flagship, not for the king himself. A good fight with knives and cutleries is one thing. But if we board that, we will come back for the box as sure as Sunday. And if one gets it, we all get it. And it ain't no pretty way to die. Ah, Captain wouldn't do this. It's the Commodore. It's a test for tears. Aye, let him board the plankship. So say I. The book is worse than the yard arm any day. We're done for, whichever way. Here he comes, back with his blooming trumpet. As in cars, stay home, too. Well, what is it? Commence, sir. The version tells me they're afraid. They don't want the boarder's ship with the yellow flag. Oh, then command of this vessel, Captain Bush. It's up to you to maintain discipline. I need not to mind, too, that the Admiralty will not be afraid. Aye, aye, sir. Bosun, tell the men that if there's one more minute's delay in manning the boat, they will all be tried for mutiny and hangs. They say they prefer the gallows to the calling box. Yes, sir. Aye, I'll tell the wait. I'm going along with the boarding party myself. Tell the men that. You, sir. Aye, Captain Garth. We're sending a boat to you. We're coming aboard. This was exactly what he should have said.  But it would have been quite impossible to turn back now on my own orders. My little brother, the Commodore is coming along. Look out, my brother. The Commodore is going with us. I'm with him for one. Ah, that's you, Tom. Lower away. Come on, mate. Over we go. She'll be ready for you to board in a moment. Thank you, Connors. But just someone's search and choke, please. We'll take him along. Aye, aye, sir. What's going on over there on the Maggie? It's thrown down his trumpet and he's stamping a butt. I got crazy, man. He's reshelting some kind of an order. This will soon find out what all that racket's about. It does seem strange, sir. At any rate, she's had a good view now of our 74 guns. She'll hardly try to run for it. Oh, hold on, I get it. Pots or no pots, we're on the way. And take this word of warning. Stay hold, too, or I'll sink you. Where is Captain Garth? We wish to surrender, sir. What's this? We wish to surrender. We are helpless against your guns. And we did not expect to meet the British Navy. Who are you? I speak for the French crew for the board to take the Maggie into port. I thought a pilot crew. This ship is a prize. Yes, sir. A French prize taken two days ago. By what ship was she captured? By what ship, answer me. By the Blanche Fleurs. We are of the Blanche Fleurs crew. The Blanche Fleurs. Do you hear that, Connors? The Blanche Fleurs were hot on her tail, finally. The Maggie's no plague ship. She's a great piece of luck. That yellow flag was hoisted to keep us from boarding her. A clever trick, I suppose it ought to be, sir. I think so myself. Here, take this man prisoner and round up the others, Connors. Aye, aye, sir. Get on, lad. Get the French user and find this Captain Clark. I'm most curious. You were up there. What have you done with Captain Clark? Stick up. He's on the way instead. What's that? He shot himself, sir. The Captain shot. Confund it, Connors. If one of your men did that, I'll have his head out. Break him, court martial him, ruin him, and have him begging bread in the gutters all the time. Oh, no, sir. Big pardon, sir. But it wasn't any of us. He'd done it himself, sir. He shot himself.  Is he dead? No, sir. He's still alive. Well, fetch the surgeon immediately. The surgeon's with him now, sir. He's over there, sir. Aye, come on. Looks pretty bad. What's his condition, surgeon? He's dying, sir. Can't last long. Want to do something for him? Not very much, sir, I'm afraid. We've just released the English crew, sir. They were shot over the folks door. It was them making all that noise.  Here comes the real skipper of the Maggie. Captain Elfby, his name is, sir. Oh, then, Clyde. I think he's renegades. They're working for the French. Commodore Hollblore? Captain Elfby, how do you do, sir? Thanks. Have you came? Oh, we yelled and, uh, hoping you'd hear us. Almost blew our lungs out. Good work, Captain. We heard you. You're afraid that Clark fellow had fooled you. He was a devilish clever impostor. We heard the shot. I'd like to find out something more about him. Clark. Clark. Can you hear me, sir? I don't know, sir. He's sinking far. Why should an Englishman betray his own country like this? Did he choose what he forced? Oh, we'll never know. He's trying to speak, sir. Burnabout will rule the world. Long live Burnabout. Apparently, that is my answer. Swine. Traitor. Quiet. I tried. She did indeed. How is he, sir? It was unconsciousness, sir, but, uh, there's still a pulse. He may linger for a while. That's an hour. That's not it. We must hang him, sir, before he dies. What did you say, Captain Elfby? We can convene a court-martial. Time on the spot will have done with it at short order. He's committed high treason, sir. He should be executed for it. He's incapable of defending himself. What defense could he possibly offer, sir? You have scores of witnesses against him. Myself, the English crew, the captured pirates. What more could you ask, Commodore? A fair trial, Captain, and that will be impossible under the circumstances. He'll slip through our fingers, sir, if you delay. Let him. But treason is no light matter, sir. Lords of the Admiralty might very well agree with you, Elfby, but I can't do it. I will not hang a man who is already so near death. But the example to the man, sir, we must always think of that. It discourages discussion. What sort of an example would it be to hang a dying man? If I can't hold men's loyalty without that sort of thing, I'm not fit to command them, that's certain. No, my mind is right up, Captain. I'll hear no more of it. As you say, Commodore. Come, come, Captain.  Peace? He deserves no peace. I said we'll leave him with the surgeon, Captain Elfby. As we walked away from the dying man, it was horrible to see the look on Elfby's face. A man still lusted for revenge against that helpless, rich Englishman. Elfby didn't know and probably would never learn that near revenge is always stale and unprofitable. However, this was no time to compare morality. Now, tell me more about this pirate ship, the Blanche Fleur. She's our real target. She's a chuprig, flush deck, 20-gullar, what do you friends call our corvette, sir? She's to be reckoned. Yes, yes, I know. Where were you when she attacked? Just off the island of Ruegan on the Swedish coast. Oh, the island of Ruegane? Yes. That would make an effective base. She could lie and wait there, then pounce on our trading ships as they come down from Finland and Russia. The worst part of it is, sir, in order to get safely by the island, you must pass through a narrow. That's a 2,000 shoal. Yes, sir. I remember that shoal from the charts. So she hemmed you in between the shoal and the land. Exactly, sir. We would have her mercy.  Well, you did what you could, Captain. At any rate, your shouts rescued the Maggie. The rest is up to us. The Blanche Fleur must be punished before she finds more victims in the Baltic. We set the Maggie to rights again and saw her off the home. Then we patrolled the coast, hoping for a glimpse of the Blanche Fleur. There was almost constant fog broken by fitful intervals of chilly sunshine. I took what advantage I could of one such interval. A barf at sea is a fine thing under a splashing pump on the washdeck, where you can stand up straight and pounce around through, if that's your fancy. A bar cry from being cramped up into one of those little infernal sitting tubs on land. But now, in my faithful coxswain, we stood by with a big towel reshivering and looking thoroughly miserable again. What's the matter with you, Brown? You look positively blue. Oh, it's the water, sir. It's icy. Well, you're not in it. I am. I know, sir. But right out of the freezing Baltic. Well, I can't persuade myself it's a tall, helpful view. Oh, rather, of course, it is. Best tonic in the world. Fresh from the blast, sharp from the whip, sir. You ought to try it, Brown. Oh, will you please, sir? Oh, I'm much more than open. He's mediated just to watch you, sir. Come on over, sir. Sir. I'm sorry to interrupt you, sir. The Captain Bush sent me over. What is it? Can't you see I'm... Oh, here. Turn off this jet, will you? Turn off this jet, I say. Is everybody dead? Well, now, what is it, Mr. Hurst? Hand me a towel, Brown. No, come on. The big one. Oh, shall I get your rope, too, sir? This breezy. Send my towel down to here. Yes, sir. Oh, but really, sir, All right, young man.  Now, speak up, there. There's a sail been sighted to Lua. What? What? A ghost? Just say so. I'll come to the quarter-deck immediately. It might be the Blanche, sir. But, sir!  You... Don't bother me, Brown. This is him for... Give me the glass, Captain Bush. Now, where is she? She's gone. We've lost her, I'm afraid, sir. It's misting up over there again. She's disappeared into the fog. And this blasted fog is coming our way to her own confound of weather. Could you tell what her course was, Bush? North by Norris to half north, sir. No, sir. She may have seen us. I'm not sure. We'll have to take a chance. Pursue her on that course, Captain. Aye, aye, sir. Now, to wait till this scurvy fog list. Oh, I'll stand watch with you. Aye, sir. Excuse me, sir, but there's a north wind. Well, that is, I mean to say, sir. Aren't you cold in that towel? Oh, good heavens. I've forgotten all about it. Where are my clothes, anyway? Here, Brown! Brown, what do you mean by letting me charge off that way without a stitch of clothes on? This whole ship has gone mad.  We've heard our chase through the increasing fog, the other ships at the squadron keeping course is best they could. The next day, about noon, the wind freshens and the mist began to clear. She was nowhere in view. She's probably spotted us intact, sir. I'm afraid she's got away. Oh, sure, of course, Captain. Aye, aye, sir. Oh, come, don't look so grilly, Bush. This sea is not as wide as the Atlantic, you know? Well, sir, almost three days without a sign. Don't you suppose... Let me have the glass. Aye, aye, sir. Can you see her? What is she? Glasses, certainly, aren't as good as they were once. I can't see one confounded thing. Must head there. What's the position? Call it. Please, why set back the port? Now, there she is. And she's our chasel, like a flush-decked 20-gunner. Then the French colors must be the blanche. Set all sail, Captain, at once. She's sighted us now, sir. No doubt about it. She's making off on the full speed. And if I'm not mistaken, she's heading straight for those narrows of Ruegen Island. Good. Why, that's exactly where she trapped the Maggie, isn't it? Yes. Then why is the blanche fur allowing us to... Those are neutral Swedish waters, Bush. The blanche fur knows that we know that. She's counting on our fear of offending Sweden's neutrality. It's not un-clever of her, is it? That's hardly a trick. Look at her in there, almost wide, almost leering at us. What can we do, sir? We can't do that. You'll keep the nuns out here this side of the tunnel. We'll post the lotus at the other end. The blanche fur has bottled herself up. We'd better make the most of it. Then you intend... I think I'll go aboard one of the bomb catches. Why not the moth? She's got a good range. She's easy to maneuver. Besides, her Captain Duncan's just a youngster. But, I mean, it's awesome action, don't you think? You're going to throw bombs, sir, but... Sweden. Our orders were to maintain Sweden's friendliness. It's possible. It's possible. I know, I know. But who can have their cake and eat it, too, eh? I only meant you told me yourself, sir. Our greatest hope is to bring Sweden and the Russians in as allies. Yeah, Bush, I wish you'd stop sounding like the voice of my consul, sir. I wonder if... Oh, no, it can't be helped. We can't hold off. Sweden wants the best of both worlds to make both France and England happy. But I... No, Bush, our first concern must be the blanche fur and her finish. I hope you're right, sir. I hope I'm right, too, Bush. I'd better be if I'm not the admiral till I have my eyes. When Duncan, just because your comradores are bought the moth, you needn't change your habits, man. For some sake, relax.  Thank you, sir. How much longer do you think we'll have to wait? I know you're eager for action, Duncan, but do have a little patience. The mortars are quite accurate, I suppose. Oh, yes, yes, indeed. And I talk the fuses myself, sir. If you'll excuse me, sir, I'll go far. We're in rains now. Yes, I'll go with you. There she is, riding at anchor over there, feeling snug and snug and sound, eh, Duncan? Right where she's pounced on other prey besides. Ah, poetic justice. Weather's still a little sticky, sir. I'll cut the fuses, one and eleven sixteenths. How do you figure that? I found during practice maneuvers that the fuse burns at different speeds according to the weather. This scene's about right for today. We wouldn't want the show to burst in air. Right, sir, right, sir. This must be a surprise. Well, proceed when ready, Duncan. Aye, aye, sir. 1,100 yards. We'll try a pound and three quarters of powder, Mr. John. Aye, aye, sir, pound and three quarters. Now the lean stock. Yes, sir. To the fuse. Let it catch. One, two, three, four, five. She's caught, sir. Ready? Fire! You can see the shell rising over the mast head. The shell burst in the air. My fuses are at fault. Not necessary. Let's try a little more powder. We'll try two more pinches of powder this time, Mr. John. Aye, aye, sir. Now, ready? Fire! Keep heat, sir, sir. Wait till the smoke clears. Then we can... Yes. A squaring hit on her bow. A man are taking to the boats. Another shell into our farm. Aye, aye, sir. Now jump to it, men! Both mortars together! Be right here! It wasn't long before the blanched blur lay a smoking, helpless wreck. Her raiding days were over. I must say, though, I find myself feeling a little chilled and empty. This had been a brutal business. We had destroyed a ship which had no chance of filing back effectively. Oh, of course. It would read well in my reports, and brother officers would tell each other in the clubs of hornblowers knew his success. Then, why this feeling of inglorious dissatisfaction? But naturally, I couldn't speak of this to anyone, especially since that very night aboard my flagship we celebrated. And now, gentlemen, I would like to give you all a toast to a young officer whose careful attention to duty and whose marked professional ability resulted in the destruction of the enemy, Captain Duncan of the Mosque. Aye! Well, aren't you going to reply, Mr. Duncan? It wasn't I at all. It was the Commodore who... Well, after all, I mean Captain Duncan. If you wish to advance in his majesties, maybe never try to offset commendation when it's due. I suggest you might show off your vocal powers to greater advantage by favoring us with one of your songs. Oh, yes, I've heard about them ever here. Come on, come on. Come on, come on. Why, thank you, sir. Well, let me see it. I was thinking of someone left behind at home. I know I was. I thought of Barbara.