" "Ask..." "Be so kind as to make a light and find me a pocket flash-lamp if you have one.

" Phinuit fetched a pocket flash-lamp, and the three reconnoitred exhaustively the quarters of the deck in which the apparition had manifested itself to the woman.

"I've got a flash-lamp in my cabin.

Got a flash-lamp?" He disappeared below and I sat down and waitedwaited for sounds of astonishment and joy from the bowels of the earth.

In her blouse she slipped a household flash-lamp.

Her left hand fumbled in her blouse, and she found what had been there all alongthe flash-lamp.

The flash-lamp was knocked from her hand and blinked out.