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Do thou hold the lantern, Marie; utter not a word check even thy breath and the God of thy fathers shall save thee yet." He raised her gently in his arms; and the hope of liberty, of rescue from Don Luis, gave her strength to grasp the light to guide them.
The windy down had probably never known so strange a concourse as that which presently streamed over it, with torch and lantern, and stood around the mouth of the disused mine. The night was dark, and nothing could be seen save what the flare of the lights they carried showed them a jagged rim of pit without a bottom.
The method of signaling was very crude, and he ventured to say that it was quite out of date when vessels met each other at a rate of speed of 24 to 25 knots. He had, as an amateur, tried a method which he would attempt to explain. His idea was to fit up a lantern on deck, showing an electric light.
The dusky gloom which had held the deck on the previous night enveloped all forward of the main-mast. A lantern swung in the forecastle, and swayed with the motion of the ship. The light at the prison door threw a glow through the open hatch, and in the cuddy, at her right hand, the usual row of oil-lamps burned.
In the large, dark room with its rows of benches and desks the white cloth used for the magic lantern was dimly visible, and there were sounds of suppressed laughter. At the window, through which could be seen the dark green boughs of trees in twilight, stood Lialia and Dubova. They gleefully greeted Yourii. "I am so glad that you have come!" said Lialia. Dubova shook him vigorously by the hand.
They had reached the centre of the rampart, when she saw in the distance a tall figure stretched at full length. That, yes, that was he! Snatching the lantern from the lansquenet's hand, she rushed to the prostrate form, threw herself on her knees beside it, and cast the light upon the face. What had she seen? Why did the shriek she uttered sound so agonized?
Then, he stopped, looked down into the cavity, bent over it, and took out what appeared to be an ordinary case-bottle: one of those squat, high-shouldered, short-necked glass bottles which the Dutchman is said to keep his Courage in. As soon as he had done this, he turned off his lantern, and they could hear that he was filling up the hole in the dark.
I didn't know things were so bad as this! Vannicock's arm dropped from her waist, where it had been resting as they walked. 'Will you leave? she asked. 'I will if you say I must. But I'd rather help too. There was no expostulation in his tone. Laura had gone forward. 'Jack, she said, 'I am come to help! The weary curate turned and held up the lantern.
The next moment the lantern was flung up almost into his eyes, and in the light he saw the sharp, round rim of a pistol-barrel directed immediately against his forehead. In that moment our young gentleman's life hung as a hair in the balance.
And there were the pensive softness of her chin, the sweep of her round throat, the profile as sharp as a shadow against the mellow glow. Perhaps the lantern was content in its circumscribed endeavor against the night, when it could light to such good advantage so much loveliness.
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