But at 6.35 o’clock a new complication had arisen. The _Levant_, lying ahead of her consort, _Cyane_, and out of the fire of the _Constitution_, began to luff up where she could rake the Yankee. But the wakeful Captain Stewart had his eyes on her, and as she sailed up to cross the _Constitution’s_ bows he rapidly filled the _Constitution’s_ sails, put his helm up, bluffed the _Cyane_ down to leeward, and, running forward, crossed under the stern of the _Levant_ and gave her two raking broadsides in swift succession. For the moment the _Levant_ had had enough, and sheeting home her top-gallant sails, she sped away from the giant Yankee. At that the little frigate _Cyane_ began to wear around before the wind as if to escape also, but the Yankee wore around after her with greater speed, and crossing her stern from starboard to port, raked her much as the _Levant_ had been raked. At that the _Cyane_ came farther around and fired her port battery into the starboard bow of the _Constitution_, but when, at exactly 6.50 o’clock, the _Constitution_ ranged up beside her, she hauled down her flag. It was just forty minutes since the action at close range began. Second Lieutenant B. V. Hoffman, of the _Constitution_, was at once sent to take charge of the _Cyane_. This much accomplished, the _Constitution_ stood up-wind in chase of the _Levant_, that had made sail to get out of the fight, and soon saw her coming “very gallantly back to find out his friend’s condition.” Here, indeed, was the “uncircumspect gallantry” of which Sir Howard Douglas speaks. For the _Levant_ met the _Constitution_ at 8.50 o’clock, just two hours after the _Cyane_ had surrendered. Captain the Honorable George Douglas should have known that the little frigate _Cyane_ could have had no hope in the fight alone with the giant Yankee--that he himself would have still less in returning. It was a foolhardy movement, yet one that necessarily appeals for sympathy to the fighting men of both nations. The _Levant_ luffed to pass to windward of the _Constitution_, failed, passed to leeward, and the two exchanged broadsides. Then the _Levant_ spread everything to escape, but the _Constitution_ wore around in chase, and by 9.30 was sending shot from her bow-chasers into the fleeing Englishman. At that the _Levant_ also hauled down her flag. [Illustration: _Levant._ _Constitution._ _Cyane._ Action of the _Constitution_ with the _Cyane_ and _Levant_. _From an aquatint by Strickland._] As the _Levant’s_ flag came down, John Lancey, of Cape Ann, one of the _Constitution’s_ men, was dying under the surgeon’s hands. The surgeon had told him that death was near, and the man replied: “Yes, sir, I know it. But I only want to hear that the other ship has struck.” A moment later the Yankees on deck began to cheer, and, hearing them, Lancey raised his head, waved an arm that had been partly shot away, gave three feeble cheers, and fell back dead.