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"We'll soon remedy that," Jack observed, and in a short time the boys were pounding away at the plank door with a heavy sledge which had evidently been used in cutting up the gas-pipe. When the door was down a narrow passage was revealed. This, followed by the boys, led to an opening at the bottom of the knoll on which the temple had been built.
After his experiences of the night, Ned did not have to inspect the contents of these tins. He knew very well that they contained high explosives. "There's stuff enough here to blow up the continent of South America," Jimmie said, pointing at the gas-pipe lengths and the tin vessels. "And they are getting the material in shape to do the work," Ned added. "Yep," Jimmie answered.
And near the Obelisk, which had escaped unscathed, a gas-pipe in its trench had been broken by the pick of a careless workman, and the escaping gas, fired by some accident, was flaring up in a great undulating jet, with a roaring, hissing sound.
"He's a reg'lar conger-eely sort o' fellow, as can wiggle hisself through a gas-pipe a'most. You let him go, and see what he can do." "Yes, sir, let me have a try," said Barney, and I reluctantly consented, though I had very little hope of his getting through. "Hadn't us better have a biscuit and a drink of water first, sir?" said Bob Hampton. "I'm strange and hungry yet."
There the struggle continued. There the two strangely diverse bodies twisted and panted and writhed. There the startlingly agile dapper figure struggled to throw off his captor. The arch of gas-pipe went over. Glue-bottles showered amid the shattered glass and crockery.
We make a smug show of unfenced, unhedged, universal hospitality across a sidewalk boundary which nevertheless we hold inviolate sometimes by means of a painted sign or gas-pipe and never say "Have a seat" to the dearest friend in any secluded nook of our shrubberies, if there is such a nook.
Thaddeus muttered two syllables to himself, the latter of which sounded like M'dodd, but exactly what it was he said I can only guess. Then he added: "They won't go there. I can't get a gas-pipe up through those chimneys. It's as much as we can do to get the smoke up, much less a gas-pipe. Even if we got the gas-pipe through, it wouldn't do. A putty-blower would choke up the flues."
I was driving to Croydon one morning in my four-wheeled one-'oss chay, and just as I got to Lilleywhite, the blacksmith's, below Brixton Hill, they had thrown up a drain a 'gulph' I may call it across the road for the purpose of repairing the gas-pipe I was rayther late as it was, for our 'ounds are werry punctual, and there was nothing for me but either to go a mile and a half about, or drive slap over the gulph.
I wonder whether memory is a curse or a blessing to them after they have fallen so low." Fuzzy and his escort were nearly at the door. The Lady called: "James!" James stalked back obsequiously, leaving Fuzzy waiting unsteadily, with his brief spark of the divine fire gone. Outside, Black Riley stamped his cold feet and got a firmer grip on his section of gas-pipe.
He had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle; of one whom the clenched fist of Fate has smitten beneath the temperamental third waistcoat-button. He waved my thanks aside. 'It was a bagatelle, he said. We became friendly. He moved to my table, and we fraternized over our coffee. Suddenly he became agitated.
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