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Heavy clouds had obscured the setting sun and now, as the clock in the great stone tower boomed twelve, the darkness was pitchy." That is a good safe beginning. Midnight, a stone tower, a booming clock, and darkness make an appeal to the imagination. On a night like that almost anything may happen.
La Pommeraye quickly had the sails run down and the anchor dropped; and before Marguerite could leave her station, the gun boomed forth its welcome. Down to the beach she went to meet the approaching boat, and even La Pommeraye was awed when he saw her figure coming towards him.
There it boomed out again, thundering full against Siabod on the left; and Siabod tossed it on to Moel Meirch, who answered from all her clefts and peaks with a long confused battle-growl, and then tossed it across to Aran; and Aran, with one dull, bluff report from her flat cliff, to nearer Lliwedd; till, worn out with the long bufferings of that giant ring, it sank and died on Gwynnant far below but ere it died, another and another thunder-crash burst, sharper and nearer every time, to hurry round the hills after the one which roared before it.
The cook yelled.... "Your days are numbered!... " "Get out of this," boomed Wait, courageously. "Pray with me!... " "I won't!..." The little cabin was as hot as an oven. It contained an immensity of fear and pain; an atmosphere of shrieks and moans; prayers vociferated like blasphemies and whispered curses.
It took the English host as by surprise, piercing hide cap, and even iron helm; and in the very surprise that made them instinctively look up death came. A dull groan as from many hearts boomed from the entrenchments on the Norman ear. "Now," said William, "they must either use their shields to guard their heads and their axes are useless or while they smite with the axe they fall by the shaft.
They had made the great rocket on which he had worked all night. They had created it from sketches on paper, followed it through all the stages of construction until now it was ready. A loud-speaker crackled, then boomed, "The time is now zero minus ninety minutes." They were the fastest ninety minutes Rick had ever spent.
The supper gong boomed inside the hotel and Harkless bade the bell-ringer good-night. As he moved away the latter called after him: "He don't disturb nobody. Let him talk. Who pays any 'tention to him I'd like to know?" There was a burst of laughter from the whittlers.
But now one of the commanders with the motorboat flotilla could restrain his impatience no longer, and while still some distance from the enemy gave the command to fire. A single big gun boomed in the darkness and a shell screamed over the U-16 toward the German submarines beyond. "The fool!" exclaimed Lord Hastings angrily. "Why could he not wait? There is no reason for concealment longer."
The captain, accompanied by three gun-room officers, Rayner and another midshipman, and twenty men, landed at the nearest spot where the boats could put in, and proceeded overland in the direction from which the sound of the guns had come. Again and again they boomed forth through the midnight air. Solemnly they struck on the ear, telling of danger and death.
The siren boomed intermittently, and Gibraltar, invisible, flashed Morse messages in long and short shafts of light on the thick, moist atmosphere. To add to the eerie effect of it all, a ship's light was hung upon the mast, and cast yellow rays over the fog-damp. "Beastly shame," grumbled Doe, looking into the opaque darkness, "we shan't see the Rock this trip through.
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