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"If a man had dropped flat and squirmed along until in the shelter of the engine-room ventilators, he could have run forward bending low, you know without your seeing him." "But you were standing here, to starboard!" "I tell you, that match was blinding me," Lanyard affirmed irritably. "Besides, I wasn't looking except at my sister wondering what was the matter." Collison started.
He took off the giant cap with the brass ventilators, and turned it round and round, looking carefully inside it. But he found no eloquence therein. "Why did I bring a skirt, I arsk, if I'm to do the patter?" He addressed himself in an audible aside to Mrs. Keyse. "You might as well 'ave stopped at 'ome with the nipper," he added, complainingly, "if I ain't to 'ave no better 'elp than this!"
It was lighted only from above, where strong bars over the glass plainly indicated to him that the place was intended as a prison, although there were ventilators at the top and bottom, which served to keep the air pure. The place was comfortably, even elegantly, furnished with a bed, a lounge, a table and several chairs.
It's a collation...." "A poor one, I'm afraid. You've touched nothing." He dispatched an army of men to adjust electric fans, turn patent ventilators, and even to do so crude a thing as open a window. "It is all most delicious, Hugo," reassured Mrs. Heth. "I hadn't noticed that the room was warm, either." "My cheeks are burning. Touch my hand, Hugo. You see it's on fire."
Thus it came that they scrubbed the floor together, and made the chimney so that it would not smoke, and washed the blankets on the beds, and kept the woodpile high. They also devised ventilators, and let in fresh air without exposing the patients. They had no medicine, but they continually rubbed the suffering men with bear's grease.
Here on the slanting deck one got a full picture of the ruin that had come on the ship; the masts were gone, as well as the funnel; boats, ventilators with the exception of the twisted cowl looking seaward bridge, chart-house, all had vanished wholly or in part, a picture made more impressive by the calm blue sky overhead and the brilliancy of the sunlight.
Throughout my lyceum journeys I was of great use to the traveling public, in keeping the ventilators in the cars open, and the dampers in fiery stoves shut up, especially in sleeping cars at night.
Nefert says I should have built a ship and sailed away, as did the prophet and his people. Nefert awake. It is dark and cold. The air is foul. I hear rushing waters. It comes in the ventilators above our heads. It is salty. We are being swallowed by the icy sea. I have found you! O! How cold! How cold!
The sea moaned from the lashing it had received a faint undertone, however, that became suddenly drowned by loud and harsh clangor, the hammering on metal somewhere below. Possibly something had gone wrong with a hatch or iron compartment door inadvertently left open, or one of the ventilators may have got jammed and needed adjusting.
The ventilators were all closed, the stoves hot, and the air was like that of the Black Hole of Calcutta. So, after depositing my cloak and bag in an empty seat, I quietly propped both doors open with a stick of wood, shut up the stoves, and opened all the ventilators with the poker. But the celestial breeze, so grateful to me, had the most unhappy effect on the slumbering exiles.
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