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Updated: June 14, 2025
Suddenly the lamp dropped from Elsie's hand, and fell with a clatter on the stones. With a shriek of terror she turned and rushed across the yard. "What's the matter, Elsie?" cried Brian, who had been exploring the coal-hole, and now ran after his little cousin, catching her up as she arrived at the glass door of the house. "I saw it! I saw it!" panted the child, hardly knowing what she said.
"Its paws are white really, but I think it's been in the coal-hole." This seemed very likely, for not only its paws but the smart ribbon Ruth had tied round its neck was grimy and black. "It's not exactually pretty," she continued, "but it's a very nice cat. You can't think how well it knows me generally." Mr. Lorimer studied the long lean form of the cat curiously through his eye-glass.
"'Well, I am sure I do not understand that, said Miss Castle. 'But what is the good of it? Does it make them any pleasanter to listen to? "I admitted that it did. "'Whether you understand them or not? she asked. "If this young woman had at this moment fallen down a coal-hole I cannot truthfully say that I should have regretted it.
Hawkesbury went up to him and whispered something. "Oh, we'll soon settle that!" said the other, laughing. "He won't go, won't he! We'll help him, that's all? Whereabouts is the coal-hole?" So saying he made a grab at my arm, and before I could resist Hawkesbury had secured the other. I struggled all I could, but unavailingly.
As he would give a reception then and there, four sailors held a tarpaulin over his head like a canopy, and he shook hands all around, including the firemen and stokers out of the coal-hole. Grasping their smutty hands, he declared that they were as brave as any one!
"If it was a wud I wadna care for the sodgers," replied his comrade, "but it's only a bit plantation. We'll jist mak' for the manse an' hide if we can i' the coal-hole or some place." As he spoke a shout from the troopers told that they had been seen, and several of them leaving the road dashed across the field in pursuit.
Passers-by hopped over the coal-hole and glanced up at the pair standing engrossed upon the doorstep. Such as knew either of them concluded from their air that Mr. Beirne was worse again this morning. V. Vivian's gaze faltered and fell.
"You might try him," said Truesdale, doubtfully; "but I think Jane has got the inside track. You've heard about her Home, I suppose, and seen the plans for it. I should want to put up an architectural monument in such a ghastly town as this; I should as soon think of ramming an angel into a coal-hole."
We can't find the flying machine, nor get back to Roebach's camp, without light. Why, it can't be more than mid-afternoon, yet it's as dark as a stack of black cats in a coal-chute." "And that's where I feel as though I'd been," declared Mark. "Where?" "Fighting the cats in the coal-hole. Ouch! I'm lame and sore all over." "We're sure up against it," repeated Andy.
The coals would very soon choke up a pump, and the number of bulky materials that were washed out of the gunner's store room, and which, by the ship's motion, were tossed violently from side to side, rendered it impracticable to bale the water out. No other method was therefore left, than to cut a hole through the bulk-head, that separated the coal-hole from the fore-hold.
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