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The sides of the earth fell away sharply, down, down. Betty shouted, and the empty echo of her voice came back to her. "The ground's so shaly and crumbly," she said thoughtfully, "that it would be impossible to let a man down with a rope the earth would cave in and bury him." "I think I see a diamond," reported Libbie. "Don't you see something glittering down there?"
You'll do your work twice as well after it; and the ground's just in perfect condition for batting to-day." Sherriff was not proof against this wily appeal. It had been an effort to him to break the rule. It was no effort now to decide to keep it. So he jumped into his flannels and took his beloved bat, and made a long score that morning against Wake's bowling, and was happy.
How are yours, David?" he continued, as they walked to the gate. "Bit of a touch o' rheumatiz in 'em, sir. Ground's rayther damp. Good-night, sir. We'll have him yet." "Good-night," said Tom. "But I say, David, did you have a good nap?" "Good what, sir? Nap? Me have a nap? Why, you don't think as I went to sleep?" "No, I don't think so," cried Tom, laughing.
"I should imagine the flash-point is low. I can't say how Clarke got the stuff when the ground's hard frozen, but here it is." "Isn't a low flash-point a disadvantage?" Benson asked. "It must make the oil explosive." "It does, but all petroleum's refined, and the by-products they take off, which includes gasoline, fetch a remarkably good price.
There's been a big rain an' the ground's all washed clean an' smooth ... Not a track!" It was the cowboy's habit to calculate the past movements of people and horses by the nature of the tracks they left. Then Neale awoke to violence. He sprang up and rushed to the ruins of the cabin, frantically tore and dug around the burnt embers, and did not leave off until he had overhauled the whole pile.
"Headin' straight out to sea when dry ground's off that way," said Murray, finning feeble hand to starboard, "ain't what Dan'l Webster would do, with his intellect, if he was here." Hiram Look sat among them without speaking, his eyes on his friend outlined against the gloom at the wheel. One after the other the miserable members of the Ancients and Honorables appealed to him for aid and counsel.
"No, sir, not so werry far," said Billy apologetically; "but you see I ain't used to walking when the ground's a-heaving up like that there." "My good fellow, who is?" cried the mate. "Never felt anything like it before, sir. Hadn't we better go back?" "Quick!" cried the captain; "run for those rocks."
"Wild?" said her father gently. "Wild? I don't say he's still wild but why is he so late tonight, Kate? The ground's all covered with snow. The wind's growin' sharper an' sharper. This is a time for all reasonable folk to stay home an' git comfortable beside the fire. But Dan ain't here. Where is he?" "Hush!" said Buck, and raised a hand for silence.
At different points natural caves, which appeared to have been eroded by the action of water in some forgotten age, pitted the side walls at various heights. Near them was such a cavity at the ground's level an arched cavern floored with white sand. Tarzan indicated it with a gesture of his hand.
Number Eighty-six got her nose broke, and served her right, that's all. Tell the passengers there's no danger, and get 'em on board. We're going to back up to Pointsville. Better send the brakesmen to pick up the other engineer. The ground's hard tonight, and he may be hurt." "I'm going back to talk to the president," said the conductor emphatically.
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