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Updated: May 3, 2025
When all hands were called, I rubbed my eyes in astonishment, for as I glanced out of the deadlight near which my hammock swung, I saw that we were under way and well out to sea. I put on my togs in a hurry, and after lashing and stowing my "dream bag," rushed on deck. Yes, sure enough, we were at sea. "Stump" came and grabbed me round the waist he could hardly reach higher.
He did not go to sleep himself, but smoked and waited while the humming turbines gathered in the miles one hour, two hours, nearly three until a quarter to eleven o'clock, when speed was reduced. Remembering his embarrassment of the morning, Denman did not seek the deck, but looked through his deadlight. Nothing but darkness met his eye; it was a black night with rain.
A long black arm reached out from the apparently closed door; a black hand grasped me, lifted me bodily from the floor, and silently drew me into the galley, which was as dark as Egypt. I heard the cook close the door behind me and bolt it and cover the deadlight with a tin pan.
However, Denman could still look out through a deadlight. A few hours after the boat's engines had started, he could see a steamer on the horizon, steering a course that would soon intercept that of the destroyer. She was a one-funneled, two-masted craft, a tramp, possibly, a working boat surely; but he only learned when her striped funnel came to view that she belonged to a regular line.
After that he had to lift and drag the rest of him out through the deadlight and, hanging by fingertips, work his way round, inch by inch, until it seemed possible to drop into the sea and escape hitting the screw.
Then Ross casually glanced at the deadlight, and violently forced the girl to her seat. "Sit still," he commanded, almost harshly. "Sit still, and rest." For, looking in through the deadlight, was the white face of Foster, washed clean of blood, but filled with the terror and agony of the dying.
The older men crossed their legs, sat far down on their spines, and narrowed their eyes. The brick wall of the Customs House, held from collapsing by a row of rusty iron stars, seemed to bulge more than its wont for the moment its upper window, a ship's deadlight, round and expressionless as the eye of a codfish.
But, if the motor gets wet, it is useless to work the pump; so, we can be satisfied that, if we sink by means of the sea cock, we stay sunk. There is a hand pump, to use on the surface with dead batteries, but it is useless at any great depth." "What do you mean by the awash trim, lieutenant?" asked Foster, who was now looking out through the deadlight.
All four gathered around the deadlight, and soon agreed that the peculiarly elusive skin of the planet was actually within sight. However, it was like deciding upon the distance of the moon as easy to say that it were within arm's reach as a long ways off. The doctor went to a window. There he could look out upon the sun, a painfully bright object much larger than it looks from the Earth.
The boat went on at reduced speed until Hawkes had called out: "By the mark ten," when the engines stopped, and there was a rush of footsteps on deck, that centered over the open deadlight, above which was slung to the davits the boat called by them the dinghy, but which was only a very small gasoline launch. "In with you, Casey," said Jenkins, in his low, hoarse voice, "and turn her over.
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