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There was no sign of the man with the flare on the starboard craneline. He also, I learnt later, had slid down one of the backstays on to the deck, only a very short while before we reached the top. He swore that a great black shadow of a man had come suddenly upon him from aloft. When I heard that, I remembered the thing I had seen descending upon Plummer.
Yet the man who had gone out upon the port craneline the one who had bungled with the lighting of his flare was still where we had left him; though his light was burning now but dimly. "Come in out of that, you!" the Old Man sung out "Smartly now, and get down on deck!" "i, i, Sir," the man replied, and started to make his way in.
They were filled with flickering, grotesque shadows cast by the dripping light above. A group of the men stood by the port galley door their faces upturned and pale and unreal under the gleam of the light. Then I was in the futtock rigging, and a moment afterwards, standing in the top, beside the Old Man. He was shouting to the men who had gone out on the craneline.
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