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Updated: June 16, 2025
When he came up, he glimpsed the blue-light on the buoy, which had ignited automatically when it struck the water. He swam for it, and found Minnie had reached it first. "Hello," he said. "Just trying to keep cool?" "Oh, Boyd!" was her answer, and one wet hand reached out and touched his. The blue light, through deterioration or damage, flickered out.
Jack could not see whether his shot had taken effect, but he had some hopes that it had. Again, at Hemming's order, he fired, while, as soon as the first blue-light had gone out, Adair lighted another. Their eyes all the time were ranging the offing to try and discover the whereabouts of the frigate.
"We see him now the old slouched hat Cocked o'er his brow askew, The shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, So calm, so blunt, so true. The Blue-light Elder knows 'em well. Says he: 'That's Banks; he's fond of shell. Lord save his soul! we'll give him' Well, That's Stonewall Jackson's way." "His ways must have been far from agreeable," observed my wife, "if that is a sample of them."
Hardy had gazed eagerly over the country, and fancied that he could see a dark mass at a distance of half a mile. This he guessed to be the Indians' horses. By this time the blue-light was burning low, and Mr. Hardy, stretching his hand up, lit another at its blaze, and planted the fresh one down upon it. As he did so a whizzing of numerous arrows showed that they were watched.
Then Plummer shouted, and his light went utterly. There were left only the two lanterns, and the blue-light held by the Skipper, and that, a few seconds afterwards, finished and died out. The Skipper and the Second Mate were shouting to the men upon the yard, and I heard them answer, in shaky voices.
His first act was to ask for a blue-light, which after a few minutes was produced. This he set fire to, and, springing into the main rigging, held it aloft, and sent a bright glare for a few minutes, far and wide, over the scene. The effect of this was twofold.
"There is her light, sir," shouted Jack from forward, and when their own blue-light grew dim, hers was seen shining like a star floating on the water in the far distance. Thus they went on, burning blue-lights, at longer intervals though than at first, and firing shot after shot at the felucca.
There, with a match in his hand to light the blue-light, he awaited the signal. It was a long time coming so long that the pause grew painful, and every one in the house longed for the bursting of the coming storm. At last it came.
Then I gave the word "Cheerily, O men, Cheerily!" and I felt that they were handling the boat again as a boat ought to be handled. The Surf-boat now burnt another blue-light to show us where they were, and we made for her, and laid ourselves as nearly alongside of her as we dared. I had always kept my boats with a coil or two of good stout stuff in each of them, so both boats had a rope at hand.
The frigate, by sending up a blue-light, showed that she saw it likewise. "We'll have her this time, at all events," cried Adair, rubbing his hands. "Don't be too sure of that, Paddy," said Hemming; "still, towards the light we must pull." It was rather heavy work, for the people had been now some time at their oars without a moment's rest.
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