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Frank gave the signal agreed on with Jerry, and in another minute he was lifting his charge aboard the anchored boat. "Don't ask questions now, fellows," he said, realizing that the others were all agog with excitement, and both Bluff and Will consumed with curiosity. "We must douse the glim, and in the dark change our anchorage.
Suppose you take your liquor and bread and meat into the outer cavern and give us the use of this one for an hour," said the outlaw. The men sullenly obeyed and began to gather up the viands. Demon Dick seized one of the lights to go after them. "Put down the glim! Satan singe your skin for you! Do you want to bring a hue and cry upon us?
Now it was contrary to their creed to enter a house where a light was burning, above all, if there was the least chance of that light being in a sitting-room. Now they had been some hours watching the house and that light had been there all the time, therefore, argued mephistopheles, "It is not a farthing glim in a bedroom or we should have seen it lighted. It is some one up.
"On'y a glim," said the stoker in a satisfied tone, "but it showed me as I've made my money. An' made it easy, too." "'Ow much 'ave you pulled orf, then?" asked the engineer. "Double the value," replied the stoker, smiling broadly through the darkness, "of the property what I've lost in this here conflagration." "That 'ud bring you in about eighteenpence," retorted the engineer bitterly.
"West Wind, ahoy!" shouted the same officer who had spoken before. "On board the steamer!" replied French, when he was directed to reply. "Dowse that glim on your fo'castle!" shouted the officer, as with a liberal dose of profanity he demanded if they were all fools on board of the schooner. "Put out every light on board!"
And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask, and began to fill a pipe. "Give me a loan of the link, Dick," said he; and then, when he had a good light, "that'll do, lad," he added; "stick the glim in the wood-heap; and you, gentlemen, bring yourselves to! you needn't stand up for Mr. Hawkins; he'll excuse you, you may lay to that.
"Give me a loan of the link, Dick," said he; and then, when he had a good light, "That'll do, lad," he added; "stick the glim in the wood heap; and you, gentlemen, bring yourselves to! You needn't stand up for Mr. Hawkins; HE'LL excuse you, you may lay to that. And so, Jim" stopping the tobacco "here you were, and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old John.
And that coarse-grained solicitor chap at the creditors' meeting curling his lip as much as to say: 'One foot in the grave! He had seen the clerks dowsing the glim of their grins; and that young pup Bob Pillin screwing up his supercilious mug over his dog-collar. He knew that scented humbug Rosamund was getting scared that he'd drop off before she'd squeezed him dry.
"Do top that glim, Bill," said one of the men, in a tremulous voice. Dick paused while the snuff was taken off the candle; and the water went tap, tap, tap against the bends, with a most melancholy sound. I really did feel rather queer myself. Dick continued. "Well, all hands were on deck immediately, and it was good two hours before we could clear the wreck, for the men were disheartened.
There had been a signal-gun aboard, but at the first shock it tore its fastenings out of the old planks, and went crashing through the lee bulwarks into the sea. "Couldn't we get up a glim no-how?" pursued Bluenose.
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