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Silently Mr Powell inverted the holder, s about by the mere turn of his wrist the fall of darkness upon

the poop And at the same time vanished out of his mind's eye the vision

of another fla violently fro up the very clouds and carrying

upwards in its volcanic rush flying spars, corpses, the fragments of two

destroyed ships It vanished and there was an immense relief He told

enerally but of that very

thing his iination had conjured, till it was all over Heof slack weariness which

came over hi low to put the flare in its usual

place saw in the darkness the motionless pale oval of Mrs Anthony's

face She whispered quietly: "Is anything going to happen? What is it?"

"It's all over now," he whispered back

He re at that white

ghostly oval He wondered she had not rushed out on deck She had

remained quietly there This was pluck Wonderful self-restraint And

it was not stupidity on her part She knew there was ier and

probably had so for ould co to do?" she asked