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"And, Major Staines, according to me you will er need them." Winn sat up. "What d' you mean?" he asked quickly. "Men in my position," replied Dr. Gurnet, guardedly, "have very interesting little side-lights into the mentality of other nations. I don't know whether you remember my asking you if you knew German?" "Yes," said Winn. "It went out of head; but now you speak of it, I do remember."
We all held our breath as the coach rushed through the semi-darkness of Galloper's Ridge. The vehicle itself was only a huge lumbering shadow; its side-lights were carefully extinguished, and Yuba Bill had just politely removed from the lips of an outside passenger even the cigar with which he had been ostentatiously exhibiting his coolness.
There were muslin-curtained side-lights to the door. Then the door opened, and little Amabel Tenny stood there holding a small kerosene lamp carefully in both hands. She held it in such a manner that the light streamed up in Robert's face and nearly blinded him. He was dimly conscious of a little face full of a certain chary innocence and pathos regarding him.
"Oh you young men, you young men!" his guest again murmured. He had passed on to the photograph Vanderbank had many, too many photographs of some other relation, and stood wiping the gold-mounted glasses through which he had been darting admirations and catching side-lights for shocks.
What was curious, too, was that the chandelier and all the side-lights had fresh wax candles, and seats were arranged as if in preparation for a play, while near the grand piano was a sort of stage, shut off from the rest of the room by screens. Colette sat down on one of the front row of chairs and cried: "I am the audience I am all ears."
Then great clouds of black smoke poured out of the funnels, and they were under way to Siberia, Bub could not help but think. He saw the Mary Thomas swing abruptly into line as she took the pressure from the hawser, and her side-lights, red and green, rose and fell as she was towed through the sea.
Then they coiled down the halyards and put everything in order before they returned aft. "Vaire good, vaire good," the Frenchman praised, as Joe dropped in over the rail. "Splendeed! You make ze good sailorman, I know for sure." 'Frisco Kid lifted the cover of one of the cockpit lockers and glanced questioningly at French Pete. "For sure," that mariner replied. "Put up ze side-lights."
These long rides through the almost untracked wilderness, frequently along paths on which the element of danger was by no means a mere fancy, and into regions where the girl's sense of distance and direction were totally confused, afforded her many side-lights on the remarkable nature of her escort.
Nelson looked significantly shoreward. "Time?" "How's she coming, Bud?" they heard then. "Bud? And that sounds like his voice, too," muttered Bowen. "Wa-atch out!" Even with the roar of it Nelson and Bowen could hear the warning from the pilot-house to the man in the stern of the tug. A tremendous sea it was and the little Whist went over over. Over until her side-lights were under.
I could make out the bridge and the funnel well enough to see a figure moving over the rim of the storm-apron. The vessel rolled and the side-lights threw red and green glares over the sea on either side. As I stood there waiting for some sound which might tell me the position of the mysterious man who had attacked me, eight bells was struck on the bridge, and I knew it was midnight.
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