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Updated: May 16, 2025
For ten minutes after she was gone Lyndall worked on quietly; then she folded up her stuff, rolled it tightly together, and stood before the closed door of the sitting room with her hands closely clasped. A flush rose to her face: she opened the door quickly, and walked in, went to the nail on which the key of the fuel-room hung. Bonaparte and Tant Sannie sat there and saw her.
Then came the second engineer, out of breath with running, followed by two or three helpers. "Fire, captain," he gasped, "fire in the fuel-room awful blaze started in the wood box cigarette we were just settin' round talkin' over what we were goin' to do in the New Era, an' the first thing we knew it was burnin' like " "The New Era," snapped the Commandant, "and be damned to it!
We feel them; they are very real. But we try to lay our hands about and feel that other thing we felt before. In the dark night in the fuel-room we cry to our Beautiful dream-god: "Oh, let us come near you, and lay our head against your feet. Now in our hour of need be near us." But He is not there; He is gone away. The old questioning devil is there. We must have been awakened sooner or later.
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