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The captain smiled and went forward to listen to the linesman's "two fathoms, sir, two and one half fathoms, sir, two fathoms, sir"; for we were crossing the shallow bar that protects the mouth of the great river Maur from the ocean. The tide was running out like a mill-race.
The fullback falls across the line, the ball gripped in his convulsive hold, just as the linesman's whistle blows. Diemann is there almost as soon. He keeps back the frenzied men crowding about them, and bends over the unconscious player, calling him "Fred" irrationally, while the place catches fire with the cardinal and Stanford goes mad on the field. Ashley came to consciousness at the hotel.
"Will you tell me what those plumbers and plasterers and bricklayers that I saw go out just now have to do with what I was taught to call the Line?" "Tell him," said the Boy over his shoulder to Burgard. He was busy talking with the large Verschoyle, my old schoolmate. "The Line comes next to the Guard. The Linesman's generally a town-bird who can't afford to be a Volunteer.
He followed her with gross eyes wherever she went, and in order to assert himself and seem indifferent, he would sing a song of the linesman's life whenever she was about. But he might have saved himself the trouble. Miss Torsen was stone-deaf to his songs. And now it seemed she was going to stay at the resort out of sheer defiance.
In the clearer light Doctor Barnes saw something which caused him to pull up. "There's the wire break," he exclaimed. "Look here." They both left the car and approached the nearest pole. It bore the fresh marks of a linesman's climbing irons. "Professional work. And that's a cut with nippers not a break. Keep away from the free end, Gage's, it's probably a live wire. You're right.
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