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He recognized the man in a moment. It was Coja Solomon, Mr. Merriman's rascally agent of Cossimbazar. He was half dead with pain and fright. Desmond cut him loose and hurried him out of the stifling room into the open, where Bulger revived him with copious douses of water until he was sufficiently recovered to explain his unhappy plight. "God be praised!" exclaimed the Armenian fervently.
Like the proverb which says 'blessings brighten as they vanish, so the light of these lamps sometimes glows very strong just before the battery goes on the blink and douses the glim." Joe looked at his chum for a moment, uncomprehendingly, and then a smile came over his face. "Do you mean you gave him a light with a battery in it that was almost played out?" he asked.
"Even if she douses every glim on board, I'll keep her in sight! It will be starlight, and I'm not afraid, with a vessel as easily managed as this yacht, to lie pretty close to her." "Then there's another thing," said Burdette. "You're thinking they may get rid of him?" asked Burke. "Yes," said the other, "I was thinking of that!" The Captain did not reply immediately.
The best of giants, in those days, were not scrupulous in their modes of living; so that one of the best and one of the worst got on pretty well together, emptying the larders on the road, and paying nothing but douses on the chops. When they could find no inn, they hunted elephants and crocodiles.
"Well, sir," responded Bob, "he stopped you partly with his head, and it would have been broken, only he had his hands out and gripped you at the shoulders or trunk. It may be that his head was split as it was, but I hardly think so." Two more liberal douses of water, and Dave, too, opened his eyes. "Is Jetson all right?" was Darrin's first question.
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