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"I shouldn't wonder. Anybody but a graven image would notice the Gould's Bluffs foghorn. Matches right there by the lamp, in case you want 'em. If you feel mean in the night sing out; Martha'll hear you and come in. I'll be on hand in the morning. Good-night, Mr. Bangs." He blew out the lamp and departed, closing the door behind him.
'We shall have a rising tide, anyway. If the fog lasts can you manage in a fog and dark? 'The dark makes it no more difficult, if we've a light to see the compass and chart by. You trim the binnacle lamp no, the riding-light. Now give me the scissors, and don't speak a word for ten minutes. 'Foghorn? 'Yes, and the whistle too. 'A gun? 'What for? 'We're after ducks. 'All right.
Once a minute the foghorn blew and once a minute Galusha Bangs jumped as if he were hearing it for the first time. The signboard had said "1 MILE." One hundred miles, one thousand miles; that was what it should have said to be truthful. Galusha plodded on and on, stopping to put down the suitcase, then lifting it and pounding on again. He had had no luncheon; he had had no dinner.
And if, having felt yourself immersed in men and the frenzy of cities all day, you stand out in the street in this sudden hush, you will hear, like a strange questioning voice from another world, the melancholy boom of a foghorn, and realise that not half a mile away are the waters of the sea, and some great liner making its slow way out to the Atlantic.
'Oh, I suppose there'll be the new person the woman with the dramatic contralto foghorn voice; and the usual people: Mr Cricker, Lady Everard, Miss Mooney 'Miss Mooney! I hope not! I can't stand that woman. I think she's absurd; she's a mass of affectation and prudishness. And Edith! 'Yes?
Old Grimshaw breasted the storm, and after half a mile's walk came to a hangar a good deal like the one he had left. There was a light inside. "Hello, there!" he sang out in his big foghorn voice, thrusting the door open with his foot and getting under the shelter, and shaking the rain from his head and shoulders. Two boys were the occupants of the place.
To make quite sure of it an extra watch was kept on deck all night to chuck it food every half-hour; an' when I turned in at ten o'clock that night it was so close I could have reached it with a clothes-prop. "I think I'd been abed about 'arf-an-hour when I was awoke by the most infernal row I ever heard. The foghorn was going incessantly, an' there was a lot o' shouting and running about on deck.
Away he went in the darkness, baying like a foghorn, straight away to the north. And the loud 'Boo, boo, became a low 'oo, oo, and that a feeble 'o-o' and then was lost. They must have gone some miles away, for even with ear to the ground I heard nothing of them though a mile was easy distance for Ranger's brazen voice.
The Restabit Inn was closed for the season. Slowly, Galusha, tugging the suitcase, stumbled to the edge of the piazza. There he collapsed, rather than sat down, upon the upper step. Above him, upon the piazza roof, the rain descended heavily. The flashlight dimmed and went out altogether. "OW ooo -ooo ooo OOO!!" whooped the foghorn. Later, just how much later he never knew exactly, Mr.
Evans, who was a good player, surpassed himself, and had just won the first game, the others being nowhere, when a head was thrust down the companion-way, and a voice like a strained foghorn called the captain by name. "Ay, ay!" yelled Evans, laying down his hand.
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