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"How about you down there?" he called to the engine room through a telephone which could only be used when the machinery was not in action, there being too much noise to permit the use of any but visual signals after that. "All right," came back the answer. "We're ready when you are." "Then here we go!" said Tom. "Hold fast, Ned!

"That's the idea," the captain acquiesced. "Stoke her up, then, and drive full speed ahead. Take no notice of any signals. Make for home with the last ounce you can squeeze out of her." "That's all very well," Captain Jones observed, "but there will be at least half an hour during which we shall be within effective range. She might sink us a dozen times over." "Yes, but I don't think she will."

The signalman concerned was equally dogged that he never pulled off the signal that it was at 'danger' when the accident happened and that it had been for five minutes before. Obviously, they could not both be right." "Why, Louis?" asked Mr. Carrados smoothly. "The signal must either have been up or down red or green." "Did you ever notice the signals on the Great Northern Railway, Louis?"

Shortly before noon signals from Indian scouts proclaimed the approach of a band of white men. Evidently Girty's forces had knowledge beforehand of the proximity of this band, for the signals created no excitement. The Indians expressed only a lazy curiosity. Soon several Delaware scouts appeared, escorting a large party of frontiersmen.

Many of us on this got on board again, and with all our might we hove the ships into every open water we could find, and made all the sail on them in our power; and now, having a prospect of success, we made signals for the boats and the remainder of the people.

Speech is the most perfect utterance of man; but its powers are limited both in time and space. The sounds of the voice are fleeting, and do not carry far; hence the invention of letters to record them, and of signals to extend their range. These twin lines of invention, continued through the ages, have in our own day reached their consummation.

The burglar alarms were set, Koku took his place where he could watch the signals, and at the same time be ready to rush out, for, somehow, Tom had an idea that the men who had attacked him would come back. Tom and Ned occupied adjoining rooms, and soon were ready for bed. But, somehow, Tom could not sleep.

The shore was within half a cannon shot, and we clearly saw enormous rocks over which the sea broke violently. If it had fallen calm, there is no doubt but the strong currents which set, in-shore, would have infallibly carried us into danger. The captain of the frigate was not even informed of the signals of the corvette.

But the Fisher Folk know the signs of the heavens as no others may know them, and when danger is apprehended the mast is lowered, the sail furled, and the boat headed for shore. The real danger is when men are too eagerly engaged in fishing to note the signals which the skies are making to them.

The birds in my yard, as of old, poured forth their songs. But those loud, long, clear, melodious, deep-hearted, passionate, best-loved notes! As the chorus swelled from shadowy shrubs and vines to the sparking tree-tops I listened for some sound from Georgiana's room, but over there I saw only the soft, slow flapping of the white curtains like signals of distress.