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Updated: May 13, 2025
Then imagine the light turned down, and the usual floating guitar in the dark, of course and rappings and whispers and the touch of hands all in the dark. Then imagine this will make you laugh some kind of horn or megaphone of tin, that rambled around invisibly, distributing voices of loved ones here and there like sweetmeats out of a cornucopia " "You mean the spirits spoke through that thing?"
Suddenly the black form of the great vessel, pierced by scores of lighted portholes, seemed to glide away from the Bolo, and, with a rush and roar as the waves smashed against her lofty steel sides, the big vessel raced by. Gazing far above them the boys could see a uniformed figure on the bridge shouting questions through a megaphone.
With his knife he then hastily cut the megaphone in half, keeping the large end whose openings now tapered from about eight inch to eighteen inch diameters. As we stood, not understanding what he meant to do, I heard across the water a rattling of blocks and knew the Orchid, free of pursuit, was changing her course.
The cement engineer shouted an order through the megaphone and just as a lifting brown wave showed its fearful head beyond the Elephant, the river bed was cleared of human beings. Up around the cable tower foot was gathered a great crowd of workmen, women and children. Jim, greeted right and left as he relinquished his burden, looked about eagerly.
"Surely," I agreed, and added with some surprise out of my other experience, "Isn't it a little late?" But the Captain misunderstood me. "I don't mean blind shooting," said he, "just ram around." He seized a megaphone and bellowed through it at the stables. "Better get on your war paint," he suggested to me. I changed hastily into my shooting clothes, and returned to the verandah.
The answer came distinctly across the water: "Who is that with you?" My lips were buried in the megaphone; I strove to speak; I only produced a ghastly, chuckling sound. "Of course you expect to tell the truth," observed the pretty stenographer, quietly. I removed my lips from the megaphone and looked around at her. She returned my gaze with a disturbing smile.
Suddenly, about 8 p. m., one of the torpedo cruisers came tearing down the bay under full steam, and we heard the message sounded through the megaphone: "Return to port. Three Spanish cruisers within three hours' sail of the offing." It was a thrilling moment.
Those hoarse shouts of the combatants, the clang of steel smiting steel, the roar of the manager's voice through his big megaphone, the shrieks of the women connected with the troupe, induced by the real excitement of the occasion -all these sounds fell upon deaf ears as Hugh gripped his chum Arthur by the arm and called his attention to the impending peril, becoming greater with every second.
He himself towers up in the doorway, a big figure with a mouth an eloquent cavity beneath a vast black moustache distorted by his shout to these relentless agents of publicity. He towers there, the most famous man in the country. Almost symbolically he holds and gesticulates with a megaphone in his left hand. Tom and Bert Smallways both saw that return.
A spidery, youngish man from one of the platforms built out from the scaffold, now became sharply vocal through a megaphone to assistants who were bending the elements to the need of this particular hazard of Hortense. He called directions to the men who tugged the rope, to the men in control of the lights, and to another who seemed to create the billows.
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