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Updated: May 27, 2025
We discussed international marriages while we were at our toilets, Salemina and I prinking by the light of one small candle-end, while Francesca, as the youngest and prettiest, illuminated her charms with the six sitting-room candles and three filched from the little table in the hall.
He had taken a long vague walk, and one o'clock had struck before his return and his re-ascent to his room by the aid of the glimmering candle-end left for him on the shelf outside the porter's lodge. He had possessed himself, on closing his door, of the numerous loose sheets of his unfinished composition, and then, without reading them over, had torn them into small pieces.
Next came the large grey rat, captured originally in the steel trap, and whose first act might have been anticipated. It did not resent its owner's handling; but the moment it was set down it darted under the loose boards, and remained there until tempted forth by the smell of the bread and milk, and a tempting piece of candle-end, the former of which it helped the hedgehog to eat.
My machine-gun section for the gun near by lay in the front cave, a couple of feet from me; their spasmodic talking gradually died away as, one by one, they dropped off to sleep. One more indignant, hopeless glare at the flickering candle-end, then I pinched the wick, curled up, and went to sleep. A sudden cold sort of peppermint sensation assailed me; I awoke and sat up.
I said that I and my seven brothers were black rats; but I ought to make one exception. The youngest of the family was piebald a curious peculiarity, which I never noticed in any other of our race. Yes, he was piebald; and not only had he this misfortune, but he was the clumsiest and most ill-shaped rat that ever nibbled a candle-end!
I wisht I'd staid at home. I c-can't w-whistle any longer," he whimpered aloud, dropping the candle-end, the last spark of courage oozing out of his nerveless fingers. He stood up, straining his eyes down the black gully and across the dreary waste around him. "Mr. T-o-o-be!" he called, feebly, and the wavering echoes of his voice came back to him mingled with an ominous sound.
Disgusted and oppressed by cumulative inquisitiveness, he took the candle-end back to the hall; he would have given much for the time and means to make a more detailed investigation into the secret of the house. Perhaps it was mostly his hope of chancing on some clue to the mystery of Dorothy Calender bewitching riddle that she was! that fascinated his imagination so completely.
Gerrard had his doubts as to the feasibility of this programme when he was dressing the next morning by the light of a candle-end stuck into the neck of a bottle. A whisper outside the tent reached his ears. "Brother, is the Sahib awake?" "Which Sahib, O foolish one?" "Our Sahib, the red Sahib, the mad Sahib." "Aye, he is awake, but he rides forth before dawn."
There was a light in the place already from a candle-end Macartney's men must have left behind; and beside it, not looking at me, not even hearing my step, because he was sobbing his heart out, lay the boy I had carried home from the Caraquet road! "Thompson's boy, who took his horse to Billy who never came back!" I said to myself.
Underfoot was like walking on thicknesses of flannel, and except where we put our feet the place was as printless as a snowfield dust, dust, unbroken grey dust. My match burned down.... "'Wait a minute I've a bougie, said Carroll, and struck the wax match.... "There were the old sconces, with never a candle-end in them.
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