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Males were dancing together. The power of the moon had increased. The binnacle-light, however, threw up a radiance of its own on to Mr. Gilman's lowered face, the face of a kind, a good, and a dependably expert individuality who was watching over the safety, the welfare and the highest interests of every soul on board. "I was very sorry to be laid up to-day," Mr.
He got it unshipped and braced up with a pair of oars and a hencoop, without waking the man at the helm, how, I couldn't tell, but he was just like a cat; and then he blew the binnacle-light out; and then he started forrard, with his trumpet in his hand. He caught sight of me, standing halfway up the companion-way, and shook his fist at me to keep quiet and not to spoil sport.
Johnson looked away out over the weather quarter to where the beacon- lantern glimmered in the intense darkness. "There," said he; "that'll perhaps help to mislead 'em a bit. They'll take it for our binnacle-light, and'll keep straight on till they run over it.
"Hadn't he got the binnacle-light on his phiz all the time, captain?" "Then who did help them? Some one fastened that line. Look, there it is." A lantern was held out over the stern, and there was a murmur of voices. "That line doesn't belong there, and wasn't there yesterday," cried Jarette. "There's a traitor somewhere." "All right, cap'n, find him then," said Bob Hampton, surlily.
He went smartly towards the binnacle-light, as he spoke, and, holding an arm close to it, found that his sleeve was sprinkled with a thin coating of fine dust. "Didn't I say so?" he exclaimed in some excitement, as he ran to the cabin skylight and glanced earnestly at the barometer. That glance caused him to shout a sudden order to take in all sail.
And try hard as I would, I could not help making a little noise, which I felt sure Bob Hampton must hear, for there he was below me leaning over the wheel, and his head visible in the binnacle-light. But he did not hear, and I crept on and upward on my chest, nipping the yard well with my knees, and clinging with my hands.
He went smartly towards the binnacle-light, as he spoke, and, holding an arm close to it, found that his sleeve was sprinkled with a thin coating of fine dust. "Didn't I say so?" he exclaimed in some excitement, as he ran to the cabin skylight and glanced earnestly at the barometer. That glance caused him to shout a sudden order to take in all sail.
Then, as I stood quite still in the darkness, with the glow coming from the cabin-windows and from the binnacle-light, there was a faint rushing up above, and a little off to my left, and directly after I knew what it was, somebody's feet on the ratlines coming down from the main-top.
Ere the situation had been well realised the volcanic fires went down again, and left the world, for over a hundred surrounding miles, in opaque darkness. Only the humble flicker of the binnacle-light, like a trusty sentinel on duty, continued to shed its feeble rays on a few feet of the deck, and showed that the compass at least was still faithful to the pole!
Emerson commanded, sharply, and in the glow from the binnacle-light they saw he had drawn his revolver, while on the instant up from the void beneath heaved the massive figure of Big George Balt, a behemoth, more colossal and threatening than ever in the dim light.
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