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Updated: June 14, 2025
Hurrying through the doorway, I saw a tall, perspiring, hatless young subaltern, cursing because he had got entangled in the guy-ropes of some camouflage netting posts. It was Hetherton of C Battery. The colonel came outside. "The Huns came on us in the mist, sir," panted Hetherton, "out of the wood. They've killed Dawson, sir." His voice broke "and some of the others.
The other two awoke, groaning with the pain of stiffened muscles and the pain of rousing from exhausted sleep. "What time is it?" Stine asked. "Half-past eight." "It's dark yet," was the objection. Shorty jerked out a couple of guy-ropes, and the tent began to sag. "It's not morning," he said. "It's evening. Come on. The lake's freezin'. We got to get acrost."
"It may, and it may not be," Dick rejoined. "My own guess is that the storm will last for hours." As the howling wind gained in intensity it seemed as though the tent must be blown to ribbons, but stout canvas will stand considerable weather strain. "If we had driven the wooden pins for the guy-ropes," muttered Greg, "everyone of them would have been washed loose by this time."
The sunset, however, was in the act of disappearing for the Scaffolding of Dusk was passing through the air he saw the slung trellis-work about him, the tracery of a million lines, the guy-ropes, uprights, and the feathery threads of ebony that trailed the Night behind them like a mighty cloth. There was a fluttering as of innumerable wings. 'You needn't tug like that, he gasped.
The tent would now stand by itself. Dick and Dave, Tom and Greg now attended to two stakes at a time, making the other guy-ropes fast. "Danny, you may set in all the wall-pegs," said Dick, standing back to survey the really neat job. "I've been thinking " began Dalzell. "Then let Hazelton do the wall-pegging," retorted Dick tersely.
"I mustn't have anyone behind me, that's all," he said; and the woman hastily screened off a little enclosure for him by hanging old sacks to two of the guy-ropes of the tent. "Now I'm ready, he said. The woman got a drum from the inside of the tent and beat it. Quite soon a little crowd had collected.
The sailor worked rapidly. From the pile of dunnage where they had pulled up the boat the preceding fall, he unearthed a pair of long oars. These he lashed together, at nearly right angles, close to the ends of the blades. Where the handles rested he kicked holes through the snow to the sand. At the point of intersection he attached two guy-ropes, making the end of one fast to a cake of beach-ice.
I got your union suit out'n the top of a pine tree. You've no more pants than a rabbit, feller. Everything went when the guy-ropes busted I warned you to sleep in your clothes." "But what'll I do?" Sprudell quavered. "Nothin'." His tone was as dry as punk. "You kin jest as well die in them pink pajammers as anything else." "Huh?" excitedly. The mound began to heave. "I say we're in for it.
The balloon swells out amazingly fast, and when the guy-ropes are loosened and drop to the ground, the elephantine bag clumsily lunges this way and that, causing shrill squeals from those who fear to be whelmed in it. The man in the singlet tosses kerosene into the furnace from a tin cup, and you can see the tall flames leap upward from the flue into the balloon. It grows tight as a drum.
And then he gives a screech. 'What's that ahead? "I turned to see, and as I done it the skiff's bow slid up on something. I give an awful yank at the port oar; she slewed and tilted; a wave caught her underneath, and the next thing I knew me and Allie and the skiff was under water, bound for the bottom. We'd run acrost one of the guy-ropes of my fish-weir. "This wa'n't in the program.
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