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"After that Grace supported herself by dress-making and teaching music; and some two years ago, when we heard that Phil had been killed by a mine's caving in, and that he had left a little fortune to her and Nannie, I, as his executor and her friend, induced her to take and use it, which she did, with simplicity and thankfulness and with her heart full of pity and love for poor Phil.
One of the passages was over a mile long, and there were hundreds of steps to descend before one reached a level where walking was not laborious. The point of egress was through a hidden cave up the valley, near the ruins of an old church. Where the other passage had once led to she did not know, for it had been closed by the caving in of a great pile of rocks.
Jack saw that quite deep holes had been made in many of the trunks where boatman after boatman had gained the purchase which sent his craft spinning up stream. "Well, Jim," said Jack, "this is a bit easier anyhow." "It is," sighed Dent, wiping the streaming sweat from his brow. "I was pretty near caving in, and that's a fact." "We'll drop the dacoits for a sure thing," said Buck.
"It is my hour," he said, still with a smile. A portion of the roof fell in, making a barrier of flame between them. A volume of smoke arose, and through it Landless and Patricia dimly saw Indians and mulatto making for the doorway, driven forth by the intolerable heat and the imminent danger of the burning walls and the remainder of the roof caving in upon them.
The high, caving banks on either side were dangerous to approach, as the least touch of the treacherous soil might loosen an avalanche that would bury him. Seeing no suitable place to land, he pulled ahead extemporizing songs to cheer himself into the belief that he was not tired. His idea was to run until nearly morning when the chances of finding a suitable place to rest would be more favorable.
There was an avalanche of caving snow and ice all round me, but I was not drowned or likely to be, only I barely thought of it. For I could not see Paulette. Suddenly, past belief, I heard her scream: "Nicky!" I fought blindly to the sound of her voice, wormed between my screening rocks, and shouted as I stood up. She was not even in slush!
He made a dive at the whiskey cask, and drank a pretty stiff nipper before he could compose himself. We did not interfere, because we did not know but that the fellow might have escaped from the mine while it was caving in, accidents of that kind happening quite frequently, and that fright had turned his brain.
Some were mangled horribly from our shell fire, while others were wholly or partly buried in the mud, the result of shell explosions caving in the walls of the trench. One dead German was lying on his back, with a rifle sticking straight up in the air, the bayonet of which was buried to the hilt in his chest. Across his feet lay a dead English soldier with a bullet hole in his forehead.
Shallow alluvial workings have a way of caving in when you least expect it of them. After all, however, I think I like the prairie farming best." "Is that exciting?" "Yes," returned Wyllard, "if you do it in one way. The gold's there that you're sure of piled up by nature during I don't know how many thousand years, but you have to stake high, if you want to get much of it out.
How happened that piece of a boat-hook, to be a foot under ground? On the top of the cliffs the sand and gravel, with a little soil on top, is six feet deep, and this beach is formed by the caving down of the earth. There is no beach beyond the Hole, because the rocks are all bare on the top of the cliff. I suppose the sand keeps dropping down, and the roll of the sea has spread it out as it fell.
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