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Updated: June 26, 2025
A moment later they passed over a beautifully clear stream which ran down a narrow pocket valley between two high hills, swept under a rickety wooden culvert, and raced on across a marshy meadow, sparkling invitingly here and there in the sunlight. "Here's running water without a summer resort," observed the passenger, still smiling.
"A culvert that we can walk over," said Neale. "Let me go ahead. Don't you girls come too close behind me." "But, goodness, Neale!" cried Agnes. "We mustn't lose sight of you." "I'm not going to run away from you." "But you're the last boy on earth as far as we can see," chuckled Agnes. "You have suddenly become very precious." Neale grinned.
She waited, watching Laddie's plump little body wriggling farther and farther into the culvert. His jacket caught several times on the rough rim of the opening. But he persevered. "Oh!" ejaculated Laddie at last, and his voice seemed a murmur from a great way off. "I guess you better come back, Laddie," said Vi, getting anxious. Laddie, if the truth were known, thought so too.
Part of my project was to get out of sight and sit down and rest a little myself. It had always been my custom to stand when in his presence; even at the council board, except upon those rare occasions when the sitting was a very long one, extending over hours; then I had a trifling little backless thing which was like a reversed culvert and was as comfortable as the toothache.
He indicated the white road running before us between open fields to a curve, where it descended to pass beneath an old stone culvert. Beyond, stood a thick grove with a clear sky flickering among the branches. An old peasant woman was pushing a heavy cart round the curve, a scarlet handkerchief knotted about her head. "You think it's easy?" I asked. "Easy!
Mis' Otto, she says to me: 'We're so afraid that thing'll blow up and do Ma some injury yet, she's so turrible venturesome. Says I: 'I wouldn't stew, Mis' Otto; the old lady'll drive that car to the funeral of every darter-in-law she's got. That was after the old woman had jumped a turrible bad culvert." The stranger heard vaguely what the old man was saying.
Below the foot-bridge of the weir the stream suddenly narrowed to half its width, to pass under a barrel arch or culvert constructed for waggons to cross into the middle of the mead in haymaking time. It being at present the season of high water the arch was full to the crown, against which the ripples clucked every now and then.
So they unavailingly searched the carriage floor. The little old man with a bag on his back was now fixed in Corinne's imagination as the evil genius of the journey. If he spirited out her gold dollar, what harm could he not do them! He might throw stones at them from sheltered places, and even shoot them with guns. He could jump out of any culvert and scare them almost to death!
"What shall we do?" Miss Harding asked. My most vivid impression of this charming young woman at that instant was that her shoes gave forth a "chugging" sound as she walked, convincing aural evidence that their spare spaces were occupied with water. I also recall that her hat was a limp and bedraggled wreck from being jammed for an hour or more against the roof of the culvert.
Overland had told him that somewhere near a little culvert beneath the track was the marked tie indicating the hiding-place of the dead prospector's things. It would mean a journey of a day and a night, traveling pretty continuously. Finally Overland agreed to Winthrop's plan to make the attempt the following day.
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