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Then we raced on till the next halt was called. 'Look, he said, the channel's getting deeper, it was nearly dry a moment ago; see the current in it now? That's the flood tide coming up from the west, mind you; that is, from the Weser side. That shows we're past the watershed. 'Watershed? I repeated, blankly. 'Yes, that's what I call it.
The whisper rang in the box of lattice work. "Yes, and the east channel's filling now. We're utterly out of our reckoning. When is this thing down on us?" "There's no saying. She's filling as fast as she can. Look!" Findlayson pointed to the planks below his feet, where the sand, burned and defiled by months of work, was beginning to whisper and fizz. "What orders?" said Hitchcock.
For a girl to do it was too hopeless even to contemplate; but she recalled Theriere's words of so short a time ago: "There's no hope, I'm afraid; but, by George, I intend to go down fighting," and with the recollection came a like resolve on her part to go down fighting, and so she struck out against the powerful waters that swirled her hither and thither, now perilously close to the rocky sides of the entrance, and now into the mad chaos of the channel's center.
No single wound the gaping rupture seems, Where trickling crimson flows in tender streams; But from an opening horrible and wide A thousand vessels pour the bursting tide; At once the winding channel's course was broke, Where wandering life her mazy journey took. Rowe.
I suppose the channel's shifted there. It's just at an important bend too. If you took it as a guide when the water was up you'd run aground. 'Which would be very useful, I observed. 'Oh, hang it! he laughed, 'we're exploring. I want to be able to run through this channel without a mistake. We will, next time. He stopped, and plied compass and notebook.
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