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The prison doors were opened only once a week, on a Wednesday, when the governor and town major, my hole having been first cleaned, paid their visit. Having remained thus two months, and observed this method was invariable, I began to execute a project I had formed, of the possibility of which I was convinced.
"Well!" he exploded, and glared at me while I wiped the tears out of my eyes. "Shall we drive on?" I inquired meekly. We drove on. A few miles along the way a piteous bawling reached us. Since even Arizona cattle must drink sometimes, a cow had hidden her baby while she went to a distant water hole. Three coyotes had nosed him out and were preparing to fill up on unwilling veal.
"Haven't had a drop of anything but water for a week." "Then how did you get my boat half full of water?" "I didn't, sir. You came and chucked that heavy lump of paper down, and it broke the middle thwart, being a weak 'un, because of the hole through for the boat's mast, and went on down through the bottom." "What! I did nothing of the sort, sir." "Oh, Master Aleck!
It must be flowing into some hole, and we don't want to fall into an abyss just as Verslun has discovered the way out." We advanced cautiously toward the spot where, as Edith had said, the water sparkled like fireflies in the darkness. It was an eerie place.
He's got old-fashioned ideas about keeping a trust and say, do you know what he thinks? I happened to mention, the first night I got in, that a woman had thrown me down; and he just now took me aside and told me not to worry because he'd never mention the lady to you. He thinks it was somebody else." "Oh," breathed Virginia, and then she sat silent while he kicked a hole in the dirt and waited.
"Yes, but not in this d d hole," murmured Blakeney.
At last, being of an undecided character and not being able to make up his mind, he took off his boot, and handing it to his daughter, said: 'Take this boot which has a hole in the sole, hang it up on a nail in the hayloft, and pour water into it.
I measured three feet on the snow, threw about it a circle, and glanced at Nimrod. "The beast was thirty long and twenty high," he answered, "and its tusks scaled over six times three feet. I couldn't believe, myself, at the time, for all that it had just happened. But if my senses had played me, there was the broken gun and the hole in the brush.
The rock itself was a bare expanse of granite, an acre or two in extent, and was perhaps fifty feet high, while the only receptacle for water about it was a crevice forty feet long, by four feet wide, with a depth of six feet in its deepest part. The hole was not full, but it held an ample supply for all our present requirements.
"'Now, said Peterkin, in a tremulous voice, 'swim with me as near to the edge of the hole as you can before you dive, then let me take a long breath, and, as I sha'nt be able to speak after I've taken it, you'll watch my face, and the moment you see me wink dive! And oh! he added, earnestly, 'pray don't be long!
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