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Updated: May 27, 2025
There was a sound of confused trampling, and after that the lessening sounds of departure. Mr. Owens tried the door again, and found it still fast. He relighted the lamp, carried it to the window and looked upon rough boards outside the glass. He meditated anxiously and decided to remain quiet until daylight. The Happy Family worked hard, that night.
Stevenson wiped her eyes, rose and went into the inner room, closing the door after her. The engineer moved as if to depart. "Now, wait a minute," Stevenson exclaimed. "Well?" "I'll take let me figure a minute." Bryant tossed his hat on the table in disgust and relighted his cigarette. "Stevenson, listen," he began.
Staggered at my appearance, the match fell from Fleming's hand, and all was dark as before; but there was no more to be gained by darkness I had been discovered. "Jacob!" cried Marables. "Will not live to tell the tale," added Fleming, with a firm voice, as he put another match into the bottle, and then relighted the lamp. "Come," said Fleming, fiercely; "out of the cabin immediately."
The rest nodded a grand assent; the pipe was relighted; and all was silent as before. Another pipe is empty. "Looking at this inventory," said the curate, "I should imagine the articles to be of no great value.
"You got her all worked up, Betty. I'm not blaming you. It's just my jinx. She took it into her head I'd been treating you mean, and she kicked at the Casino. I gotta close it down or nix on the heir thing. That was enough for me. I'm going to turn it into a hotel." He relighted his cigar. "And now, just as I got her smoothed down, along comes this darned tenement business.
Squarey, who dwelt higher up the street. The people next door had two boys of about my own age, with whom I played cricket, and it was from the back windows of their house that I saw for the first time an exhibition of fireworks in their garden; I remember that when, just before the show began, they put out the lamp in the room, I asked to have it relighted, in order that I might see the as yet unexperienced wonder.
But better, stronger men cannot hold the wavering will-o'-the-wisp they call 'love'; and once it flickers out, it cannot be relighted. No, I have no one to blame; I can only resign myself to the bitterest, cruelest fate that can befall a woman to be loved and eagerly sought, won, and adored for a brief hour, then thrown carelessly aside a mere plaything, unworthy of serious thought.
One evening, about the end of May, she was sitting in her room, relating several remarkable occurrences of the day; four wax candles were placed upon her toilet-table; the first went out of itself; I relighted it; shortly afterwards the second, and then the third went out also; upon which the Queen, squeezing my hand in terror, said to me: "Misfortune makes us superstitious; if the fourth taper should go out like the rest, nothing can prevent my looking upon it as a sinister omen."
He had been smoking for half an hour perhaps, lying deep in his chair, worn features dully illuminated by the sinking fire; and he was thinking about going had again relighted his partly consumed cigar to help him with its fragrant companionship on his dark route homeward, when he heard a footfall on the landing, and turned to catch a glimpse of Gerald in overcoat and hat, moving silently toward the stairs.
Our detective had just re-entered the journalist's study. There, on the floor, lay the bundle which had excited his curiosity when Vagualame was present. "The enemy," thought he, "has retired, but has abandoned his baggage!" Juve relighted the lamp, and undid the black serge covering of the bundle. "Ah! I might have guessed as much, it is an accordion, Vagualame's accordion!"
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