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And swinging the big life preserver around his head as though it had been a mere toy, he hurled it far out before him, where the beams of light from the lantern showed not one but three white objects scarce above the surface of the water. "Look sharp now! lay hold there!" he cried again, and then: "All right. Keep your grip, and we'll have you in a minute."
The Texan quietly aroused some of the men and led them to one of the wagons. "I want yo'-all to see fo' yo'selves," he explained. The wagon was Modoc's own, and they entered it. The ex-wagon-train commander had a shielded lantern burning inside, and he was in the act of eating a big supper! When he saw that he had visitors, he tried to reach the gun belt he had hung up at one end of the wagon.
In the large tipper section, figures of two men, the wise men, one watching the star, one seated reading; an owl and a lantern in the window also. In the small section below, a ship with a cross on the main sail; the cross is of the design used in the Crusades. Court of Flowers Court of Flowers, by Kelham. Italian Renaissance, Byzantine touches.
"I wish to know if this is liable to get her into trouble," demanded Lorry, pausing with one foot on the steps. "Get in!" commanded the soldier who was holding the door, pushing him forward uneasily. He floundered into the carriage where all was dry and clean. In his hand he still carried the keys and the lantern, the slide of which he had closed before leaving the prison yard.
There'll be wind before morning, and you'll have to make sail." "All right, skipper," said the man with a half-laugh, and he and his lantern disappeared, while I clung there listening and wondering why Jarette did not go aft. Could he see me?
Inside a dozen men lay covered up with blankets on a thick bed of straw, most of them fast asleep, while beside one knelt a nurse with a stable lantern, holding a cup to his lips.
This symptom of approaching change merely consisted in the gathering in the heavens of a thin veil of mottled, fine-weather cloud, just dense enough to obscure most of the lesser stars and render the night rather dark, while a few of the brighter stars peeped through the openings between the clouds at tolerably frequent intervals, permitting us to steer our course without having recourse to the lantern or compass.
Between them they quickly got the man on shore, and laid him down on the path on his back. The bull's-eye lantern, turned full on him, lit up a face that seemed all bony structure, staring eyes, a mouth out of which the water dripped. He had no coat on and his thin arms were like those of a skeleton. "Dead as a door-nail," said the first policeman. "A case of suicide." "God! Hindford, it's he!
Becky was an amiable young person who could flash fire at unfairness or injustice or undue assumption of superiority. The music had stopped and the balconies were filled. George, in the darkness, was aware of the beauty of the scene the lantern making yellow moons the golden groups beneath them.
By God! It's Lieutenant Gaskins!" Hamlin's heart seemed to leap into his throat and choke him; for an instant he felt faint, dazed, staring down into the still face ghastly under the rays of the lantern. Gaskins! Then she was concerned in the affair; he really had seen her hiding there against the wall. And the man's eyes were open, were staring in bewilderment at the faces.
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