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I even let go with my feet, and hung suspended for a moment or two; and had any pilot just then have seen me through his night-glass, he could have had but one belief that suicide or some terrible crime had been committed.
They'll wrap her in tarpaulins, and carry her in that." He nods and goes up on the lookout with a night-glass, and the wearied officer he relieves comes down. As he has said, it is a desperate night of driving sleet and swirling blackness, illuminated only with the malignant coruscations of lyddite bursting-charges.
He strolled to the quarter-deck, where he found the captain directing his night-glass towards the Ionian, which showed her port light on the starboard hand, indicating that the Chateaugay was running ahead of her. The commander called the second lieutenant, and gave him the order for the chief engineer to reduce the speed of the ship.
"I seized my night-glass, and looking towards the spot where the conflagration raged, what was my astonishment to see thousands of black forms dancing round the fires; whilst by their lights I could observe columns after columns of Indian horse, arriving and taking up their ground in the very middle of the open square or tank, round which the bungalows were built!
He estimated that it occupied those four men fully two hours to furl the two topsails; and when it was at last done and the men had descended to the deck with exasperating deliberation, he came to the conclusion that, if the night-glass was to be trusted, the job had been done in a most disgracefully slovenly manner.
"Was a strict watch kept, sir?" asked Lieutenant Johnson, sharply. "Yes, of course," said Captain Horton. "I have been on deck with my night-glass ever since you started, and as soon as we heard your guns the men stood ready, lanyard in hand, to fire at any vessel that tried to pass." "Then they must have gone off through some side stream, and come out into the river lower down."
She kept a moment's silence, while the quivering lights drew on and on, steadily, slowly, like a host of fireflies on the bosom of the night. "Why don't you get the telescope, and see?" she asked, at length. "No use. It isn't a night-glass. Couldn't see a thing." "But anyhow, those lights mean men, don't they?" "Naturally. But until we know what kind, we're better off right where we are.
But Mr Reardon made no sign. He stood there gazing through the night-glass for some moments, and the captain spoke again. "Recall the boats, Mr Reardon." "I beg your pardon, sir," said the lieutenant, with quite a start. "Aloft there! Who's in the foretop?" "Ay, ay, sir; Jecks, sir." I shivered. "Hail the boats to come back."
"I've been trying to get a peep at her through my night-glass," exclaimed Ryan, with a wave of his hand toward the dark blotch in the midst of the white foam, "but there is no holding it in such a breeze as this; you have to keep a tight grip on the thing or the wind will take it away from you altogether.
I continued to industriously scrutinise the brig through the night-glass, and, by so doing, contrived to keep Mendouca's attention also pretty closely centred upon her; but I could see that he was fully on the alert.
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