CHAPTER VIII.
FLIGHT.
"_So all night long and through the dawn the ship cleft her way." -- ODYSSEY, ii.
Mr.Hucks ran.

Mr.Mortimer ran.

As they reached the gate they heard the voice of Doctor Glasson uplifted, gurgling for help.
They spied him at once, for by a lucky chance his lantern--one of the common stable kind, with panes of horn--had fallen from his grasp as he pitched over the edge of the basin.

It floated, bobbing on the waves cast up by his struggles and splashings, and by the light of it they quickly reached the spot.

But unluckily, though they could see him well enough, they could not reach Doctor Glasson.