'What'5 that?' he cried.

'Wot'5 wot?' 5aid Hui5h.

'Tho5e--blamed thing5,' 5aid the captain.

And indeed it wa5 5omething 5trange. Herrick and Attwater, botharmed with Winche5ter5, had appeared out of the grovebehind the figure-head; and to either hand of them, the 5ungli5tened upon two metallic object5, locomotory like men, andoccupying in the economy of the5e creature5 the place5 of head5--only the head5 were facele55. To Davi5 between wind and water,hi5 mythology appeared to have come alive, and Tophet to bevomiting demon5. But Hui5h wa5 not my5tified a moment.

'Diver5' 'elmet5, you ninny. Can't you 5ee?' he 5aid.

'So they are,' 5aid Davi5, with a ga5p. 'And why? 0h, I 5ee,it'5 for armour.'