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Updated: June 14, 2025
Phinuit fetched a pocket flash-lamp, and the three reconnoitred exhaustively the quarters of the deck in which the apparition had manifested itself to the woman. By no strain of credulity could the imagination be made to accept the effect of shadows at the designated spot as the shape of somebody standing there.
Turning toward the speaker, the man replied in good if rather carefully enunciated English: "I am not of your comrades. I am come from the enemy trenches." "The 'ell yer are! 'Ands up!" The muzzle of a rifle prodded the man's stomach. Obediently he lifted both hands above his head. A thought later, he was half blinded by the sudden spot-light of an electric flash-lamp. "Deserter, eh?
"I wish, by your leave, to take you out to dinner.... This way, please!" Leading through the scullery, he unbarred a low, arched door in one of the walls, discovering the black mouth of a narrow and tunnel-like passageway. With a word of caution, flash-lamp in his left hand, pistol in right, Lanyard stepped out into the darkness. In two minutes he was back, with a look of relief.
In order to get here, I slept as I marched; and now I have an illusion that I am hidden in this little cave, cooped up against the curve of the roof. I am no more than this gentle cry of the flesh Sleep! As I begin to doze and people myself with dreams, a man comes in. He is unarmed, and he ransacks us with the stabbing white point of his flash-lamp. It is the colonel's batman.
It was pitch dark before we reached the ridge carrying the trap, two lanterns, an electric flash-lamp and a wretched little dog for bait. We had been engaged for about fifteen minutes making a pen for the dog, and Caldwell and I were on our knees over the trap when suddenly a low rumbling growl came from the grass not twenty feet away.
He nodded grimly, moved back from the window, and used the flash-lamp to light him to the door.
He carried, as Tom could see, a large-sized electric flash-lamp, with a brilliant tungsten filament, which gave a powerful light. As the youth watched, he saw the intruder place the light on a bench, in such a position that the rays fell full upon the Humming-Bird.
Within the house everything remained silent, there was no sound audible, no gleam of light to show that any of the inmates had been disturbed. Taking from his pocket a small electric flash-lamp Dunn turned its light on his victim. He seemed a man of middle age with a brutal, heavy-jawed face and a low, receding forehead.
There were no lights allowed at night in Amiens, and when I think of darkness I think of that city in time of war, when all the streets were black tunnels and one fumbled one's way timidly, if one had no flash-lamp, between the old houses with their pointed gables, coming into sharp collision sometimes with other wayfarers.
"Come on, let's find it!" The little party hurried off toward the landing-ground, a cleared and levelled space further up the mountainside. The light of the burning bungalow helped show them their path; and Craig had also taken an electric flash-lamp from the hangar. With this he led the way. "Right! There it is!" suddenly exclaimed Gabriel, pointing.
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