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"Bang! it's gone blooie!" Perk suddenly told himself as he no longer found himself able to distinguish that suspicious gleam which had gradually grown dim and then utterly vanished from view. "Now, what in thunder does that mean I want to know why should they douse the glim in such a hurry wonder if they could have caught any sound from us to give 'em a scare? I'm in a tail-spin, seems like.

"I can douse a glim, anyhow," cried Jemmy. "That's my darling duck," cried Moggy, delighted with this proof of her husband's vigour. Some confusion was created by this manoeuvre on the part of Jemmy, but candles were reproduced, and the first man who spoke, feeling as if this victory on the part of Jemmy was a rebuke to himself, again commenced his interrogations.

Then, just at a quarter to three they doused the glim, which was only an electric torch one of them carried, and skipped out, locking the door on poor Cadger. It was hours afterwards when the day watchman came on duty and the discovery followed."

"Time's up," said one of the men, turning suddenly towards his companions, and allowing the light of a dark lantern to fall on the face of a watch which he held in his hand. "Dowse the glim, you lubber," cried the angry voice of Long Orrick, "and keep a sharp look-out for the signal.

As they were not yet quite satisfied with the supply of broiled shark-meat, they had resolved to take a fresh spell at roasting on the morrow; and in order that the wick should not be idly wasted, they had "doused the glim" before retiring to rest. They had extinguished the flame in a somewhat original fashion, by pouring upon it a portion of the liquid spermaceti taken out of the case.

Even at this dead hour of night there were lights moving upon the shore, probably occasioned by the unloading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man which was lying in the bay. On the light from the sashed door of the house being observed, a halloo from the vessel of 'Ware hawk! Douse the glim! alarmed those who were on shore, and the lights instantly disappeared.

The master-at-arms, finding he had no chance in argument, doused the glim pitiable resource of a weak disputant then basely fled the rhetorical consequences. The northerly breeze died out, and light variable winds baffled the ship. It was the 6th April ere she passed the Macclesfield Bank in latitude 16.

At length it ceased, and the cautious and partial gleam of a lanthorn fell along the floor; another moment, and two men stood in the room. "Hush, Jack!" whispered one: "hang out the glim, and let's look about us." The dark-lanthorn, now fairly unmuffled, presented to the gaze of the robbers nothing that could gratify their cupidity. They muttered a mutual curse.

He came to us conducted us to the spot we heard voices showed up the glim and saw our man. Hodge, you are a good subject, and love justice." "Yees, but I shall have the rewourd," said Hodge, showing his teeth. "Talk o' that by and by," said the officer. "Will, how are you, man?" "Bad," groaned the poor runner, and a rush of blood from the lips followed the groan.

"If you go forward you will see that we have dowsed every glim on board, even to our mast-head and side lights." "You are carrying no starboard and port light?" "None; but we have a strong lookout aloft, and in every other available place. When the chase headed for the shore, we kept on our course for half an hour, and then put out the lights.