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The work was accomplished, and the pilot and engineer went on deck. Ethan repaired to his post and stopped the engine. Ben half a dozen times demanded, through the speaking-tube, what the matter was; but receiving no answer, he came down himself to ascertain the cause of the sudden stoppage of the boat.
I looked round, and seein' that every last winder was as dark as black, I stooped down to look at the things, an' here they air. And she shook out with one hand a long black veil which she had drawn from her pocket, and held out with the other the snake-like speaking-tube. 'I c'n see you're in a hurry, she said, dropping the veil and tube into her lap, 'an' I'll git to the pint now, right off.
"He had relieved me at 10 a.m. He might have been up over an hour when it happened. The orderly-sergeant had got his mouth at the speaking-tube, in the act of sending down a message; he did not see him hit. It was a shell from their Maxim-Nordenfelt. And when we got to him, the first glance told us there was little hope." "There is none at all," says Saxham curtly, as is his wont.
All right. . . ." The Captain lifted his eyes for the first time to the man, ". . . Hackett." And he seemed to dismiss this matter from his mind. He stooped to the engine-room speaking-tube, blew in, and bent his head. Mr. Rout below answered, and at once Captain MacWhirr put his lips to the mouthpiece.
I remember that when we were looking for a flat you rejected every building that had a bell-ratchet or a speaking-tube, and would have nothing to do with any that had more than an electric button; you wanted a hall-boy, with electric buttons all over him. I don't blame you. I find such things quite as necessary as you do."
A defensive patrol was operating between Albert and the trenches. We joined it for half an hour, at the end of which I heard a "Halloa!" from the speaking-tube. "What's up now?" I asked. "Going to have a look at the war," was the pilot's reply. Before I grasped his meaning he had shut off the engine and we were gliding towards the trenches.
He called through a speaking-tube for a further supply of sandwiches and some coffee. Then he turned to consult a chart. He was joined by the chief officer. Both men examined the chart in silence. Captain Ross finally took a pencil. He stabbed its point on the paper in the neighborhood of 14° N. and 112° E. "We are about there, I think." The chief agreed. "That was the locality I had in my mind."
We had several of his chromos; one was his "Miraculous Draught of Fishes," where he puts in a miracle of his own puts three men into a canoe which wouldn't have held a dog without upsetting. I always admired to study R.'s art, it was so fresh and unconventional. There wasn't even a bell or a speaking-tube in the castle.
"Well, we have put your good English into what you profanely call legal jargon," said that gentleman. "Just listen, and try to understand your own directions while I read them over." It was all plain enough, and short enough, in spite of Mr Burrows' little joke, and then Mr Burke put his mouth to a speaking-tube, and called Daireh to come and witness the document.
But just see if I am not right; he will become precisely the same as the rest of us. And the teacher was right. Miss Thyra went and called into the speaking-tube: 'Will Trofast's cutlets be ready soon? The maid's voice came up from the kitchen: 'They are on the window-sill cooling; as soon as they are all right, Stine shall bring them up.
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