It was evident that it did connect, for no sooner had the boy given it a twitch than the whole room went black, as if they had all been struck blind, and an instant afterward they heard the dull crash of the closing door.
“ Well, you’ve done it now,” said Symon, in his tranquil fashion. Then after a pause he added, “I suppose they’ll miss us sooner or later, and no doubt they can get it open; but it may take some little time.”
There was a silence, and then the unconquerable Stinks observed:
“ Rotten that I had to leave my electric torch.”
“ I think,” said his uncle, with restraint, “that we are sufficiently convinced of your interest in electricity.”
Then after a pause he remarked, more amiably: “I suppose if I regretted any of my own impedimenta, it would be the pipe. Though, as a
