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It was not to be found in any of the valley haunts, these having been transformed by the country-house colony. The old water-wheel below the dam hung motionless, being supplanted by the huge, modern, blowing-engines; and the black wash from the coal-mines had driven the perch from the pools and spoiled the swimming-holes in the creek.
You can have what's left o' him atter I get thoo and it'll be enough to kill, I reckon." At the moment of weapon-passing there came sounds audible above the sob and sigh of the blowing-engines a clatter of horses' hoofs and the grinding of carriage wheels on the pike. Gordon signed quickly to Kincaid and drew back carefully behind the bole of the opposite poplar.
The mingled clamor of the industries was left behind, but the throbbing pulsations of the big blowing-engines hung in the air like the sighings of an imprisoned giant. They were passing the miniature copy of Morwenstow Church when Ardea spoke again. "You have been home all summer?" she asked.
"You don't know how far away anything like that seems when there is an ocean between. And I was hoping all the time that our homeland down here was escaping." "Escaping? You came through South Tredegar a little while ago; it is dead too dead to bury. You hear the sob of those blowing-engines? you will travel two hundred miles in the iron belt before you will hear it again.
Tom had pushed out a chair for his father and was lighting his own pipe when he suddenly became aware that the still air was once more thrumming and murmuring to the familiar sob and sigh of the great furnace blowing-engines. He started up quickly. "What's that?" he demanded. "Surely they haven't blown in again?" Caleb nodded assent. "I reckon so.
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