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The carriage light was feeble, and the faces I saw above me drooped under the glim, wilted and dingy. The eyes of the dishevelled were shut, and this traveller, counting the pulse of the wheels beneath, presently forgot everything ... there was a crash, and my heart bounded me to my feet. There had been a fortnight of excitements of this kind. A bag fell and struck me back to the floor.
The eight boys presented a comical appearance as they stood there, awaiting the sweet notes of the bugle sounding "taps;" for their pajamas were of all sorts of patterns, from gay stripes to deep solid blues and reds. Thad gave one last look around, and picking up a lantern motioned to Allan to take charge of the other, so that at the last notes they could "douse the glim."
The narrow and forbidding by-path under that glim, a path intermittent and depending on the weight of the night which is trying to blot it out altogether, goes to Wapping Old Stairs. Prince Rupert once went that way. The ketch Nonsuch, Captain Zachary Gillam, was then lying just off, about to make the voyage which established the Hudson's Bay Company.
But soon after the firing along the river began, we saw groups of women and children and a few old men in the glim twilight of the morning rushing along the roads out from the city as fast as their feeble limbs and tender feet could carry them, hunting a safe retreat in the backwoods until the cloud of war broke or passed over.
Try as he would, they wandered back to that one point as inevitably as the needle to the pole. "Do it 'urt you?" Jim Cardegee thundered suddenly, looking up from the spreading of his blankets and encountering the rapt gaze of the other. "It strikes me as 'ow it 'ud be the proper thing for you to draw your jib, douse the glim, an' turn in, seein' as 'ow it worrits you.
Jamie crouched close to the tree trunk. He scarcely breathed. The approaching figures came directly toward the white birch. "It's lucky we saw them fellers first," said a gruff voice. "They'd sure suspicioned somethin' if they'd got a glim on us. They never seen us comin' over, and they'll never find our boat where we hid her."
"Perhaps we'd better douse the glim, then?" Bob suggested. "Let it burn out," Frank remarked; "I don't believe there's much chance of anybody else seeing it now; because it's pretty low. Our tent shows up about as plain, come to think of it; but I don't mean to do without shelter." They sat there, chatting on various subjects, for some time.
As he spoke, the door of the round-house was opened, and a stout man, with a lantern in his hand, presented himself at the threshold. "There's Sharples," cried Quilt. "Whist!" exclaimed Terence; "he elevates his glim. By Jasus! he's about to spake to us."
My thoughts were upon Sir Reginald and Ellen, as I replied "You have told and convinced me that I may trust is you, and I have no fears; my present object is one as strong to me as life." "I would we had a glim," rejoined Job, musingly; "I should like to see your face: but will you give me your hand, Sir?" I did, and Jonson held it in his own for more than a minute.
'All right, he muttered, and laid them upon the floor. At this instant, a mouse ran across the floor, and then about a dozen others, shrieking like a sharp blast of autumn wind. The Lifter rose to his feet and glanced about, and then shaded the feeble glim with his hand.
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