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Updated: May 22, 2025
While Miss Eunice worried, and Philippa haunted the post-office, he was lying ill in his cheerless little bedroom, on the top floor of the cheap lodging-house. He had skated not only Thanksgiving afternoon, but again at night when the ice was illuminated by bonfires and lanterns. There was a danger-signal posted farther down where the ice was thin.
Perhaps the signalman thought the goods train had completed its operation, or fancied that the express was not so near as it proved to be, or he got confused we cannot tell; there is no accounting for such things, but whatever the cause, he turned off the danger-signal half a minute too soon, and set the line free. Suddenly the down train came tearing round the curve.
The words hadn't left his lips when he saw, a few yards in front of them, a faint cloud of steam rising up from the ice that dim danger-signal that flies above an air-hole. The Colonel, never noticing, was heading straight for the ghastly trap. "God, Colonel! Blow-hole!" gasped the Boy. The Colonel simply rolled off the pack turning over and over on the ice, but keeping hold of the rope.
Nevertheless, she smiled at Miss Marley before she left her, because she didn't want Miss Marley to feel upset; and Miss Marley accepted this reassurance with an answering smile until the door was shut. When Claire found Winn at the bridge-table she saw at a glance that he was not in the mood for renunciations. His eyes had the hard, shining stare that was the danger-signal of the Staines family.
During the afternoon we were drilled in the method of abandoning ship, and I was put in charge of a lifeboat and a certain section of the ropes that were to be used in our descent over the side into the water. Between twelve and one o'clock that night we were awakened by three blasts, the preconcerted danger-signal. Slipping into my life-jacket, I groped my way to my station on deck.
The drainage, however, is very much improved of late years, and the magnificent river embankments have done much to obviate the malaria arising from mud-banks. Skating Death and funeral of Deák Deák's policy Uneasiness about the rise of the Danube Great excitement about inundations The capital in danger Night scene on the embankment Firing the danger-signal The great calamity averted.
The herd, however, broke, divided, swung to right and left and passed about the burning danger-signal and to the outer rims of the valley, achieving safety somewhere in the night, scattering, tossing their gleaming fronts, snorting, and beginning to bellow their rage. "If it hadn't been for you, Terry Temple " Steve began, his voice a little hoarse.
And introspection was revealing a crack after so many years in that self that he had believed to be so strongly welded. Such was the strain of the pent-up force. He recognized the danger-signal. The same phenomenon had driven him into the Church, where the steam had found an outlet until now.
"Put up some signal or other, to stop it. That will save you a long, long walk, and save me from remembering! I need you here with me," she added earnestly. "Don't go please!" "All right, as you will," the man made reply. "I'll rig a danger-signal on the road; and then all we can do will be to wait."
There was a certain ill-suppressed eagerness in the tones of the man's voice as he asked this question that acted very much as a danger-signal to Leslie. It seemed to suggest that thus far the man had merely been fencing with him, but that he was now trying to get within his guard; that, in short, the object of the Minerva's visit to the island was nearing the surface.
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