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If we obtain the tunnel, as I hope we shall, all the cars of these North Side lines will emerge here" he pointed to La Salle and Randolph "and swing around that is, they will if the city council give us the right of way. I think, of course, there can be no reasonable objection to that.
"I hope you will pardon a stranger for calling on you," resumed the man, "but I'm in a lot of trouble, and I think you are the only one who can help me out." "What sort of trouble?" Tom inquired. "Contracting trouble tunnel blasting, to be exact. But if you have a few minutes to spare perhaps you will listen to my story. You will then be better able to understand my difficulty."
The fire had raced to its mouth and was licking in with long, red, hungry tongues. The tunnel timbers were smouldering. "Lie down and breathe the air close to the ground," ordered Dave, just as though a mutiny had not been quelled a moment before. "Stay down there. Don't get up." He found an old tomato can and used it to throw water from the seep-spring upon the burning wood.
"There wouldn't be any chance at the tunnel either, would there? They haven't cut through yet." "No and they won' finish until June. That is when they figure " "That's a long way off." "Too long," agreed Ba'tiste, and turned again toward the telegrapher, once more alert over a speaking key.
Think it over, Ribouville, for the next three or four days. You may be able to pitch upon some plan. If you cannot do so, we must at least try the experiment of exploding our nitroglycerine in the middle of the tunnel or, at any rate, as far in as we can carry it and make our retreat in the half hour, which is all the time we can calculate upon holding the entrance."
In a few minutes they were through it and in a place full of cedar trees outside the wall of the Gold House, under which evidently the tunnel passed, for there it rose behind them. Beneath these cedar trees they flitted like ghosts, now in the moonlight and now in the shadow.
I mean there couldn't be a funeral. We had to conclude it, because we believed him to have been right inside the tunnel. He must have got clear after all, before Airth sent the flash, and getting in with the first rush, been unable to return. Of course he has reached Cairo with no money and no means of getting home.
But, coming nearer, Beltane espied above the hurrying waters the curve of an arch or tunnel, and pointing it to the others, took a great breath and, stooping beneath the water, stumbled on and on until it shallowed, and he was free to breathe again.
Still he heard the horse in the dark drinking, still he saw the mystic rose, and the tunnel dropping diamonds. He had driven away alone, believing the earth had confirmed him. He stood behind things at last, and knew that conventions are not majestic, and that they will not claim us in the end. As he mused, the chalk slipped from his fingers, and fell on the coffee-cup, which broke.
Ten more minutes and he was at the Swiss side. When he saw the daylight shining through the entrance to the tunnel, the train stopped and he got out. He walked towards the green light, and came to the village and the green world, bathed in sunlight; the village had been rebuilt and looked prettier than before. And when the workmen saw him they saluted their first man.
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