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It came from further up the mountain, and yet drew rapidly closer, increasing in intensity, until it began to assume the proportions of a terrible roaring, while the rocks vibrated in a sickening way. "Oh! it must be an earthquake!" shrilled one scout, in alarm. "Lie still, everybody!" shouted Mr. Witherspoon; "don't think of crawling out. It's a landslide coming down the side of the mountain!"
By the way, I wonder how they fared in the landslide?" the old miner continued. "Three of them, Merwell, Haskers, and Blugg, were below me," answered Dave. "They were over yonder," and he pointed with his hand. "Wot! Down on thet ledge?" cried Abe Blower. "Yes." "Humph! Then I reckon it's all up with 'em," went on the old miner. "What do you mean?" asked Roger.
"It must be that he really thinks now he knows where his uncle hid the treasure box. He wants to dig for it," was Ruth's thought. Yet she remembered that Jerry had said all along the old man had seemingly gone mad because his treasure box was buried under a landslide. She asked Mr. Preston, the foreman of the camp, where the landslide had occurred.
At that he groaned, and spurred the black, and so the cavalcade rushed faster and faster through the night. They came over a sharp ridge and veered to the side just in time, for all the further slope was a mass of treacherous sand and rubble and raw rocks and mud, where a landslide had stripped the hill to the stone.
The two younger girls then told of the pit and the river and all agreed that it might be the stream found by the prospector before the landslide covered his claim. MONTRESOR'S CLAIM is JUSTIFIED Polly turned to place the nuggets in the pannier and almost collided with Noddy. "Hello, darling! What do you want eh?" said she, patting the burro's head.
The dirt and small rocks had rolled back upon us till we stood ankle deep, but the native's advice was good. Hugging the wall of the cliff, we ran back on our tracks till we had passed the area devastated by the landslide; then we sprang into the bushes and peered up at the cliff.
Content to abide by his judgment, and glad that they had escaped being caught in that avalanche of earth and rocks, the boys kept quiet until finally, as there was no repetition of the landslide, they were allowed to issue forth. Investigation showed them where the slip had occurred. Some fault in the formation of the mountain side had allowed it to happen, the conditions being just right.
When they have been duly stabled according to their kinds, I climb to the crib in the barn and create a great landslide of the fat ears that is like laughter; and then from every stall what a hearty, healthy chorus of cries and petitions responds to that laughter of the corn! What squeals and grunts persuasive beyond the realms of rhetoric! What a blowing of mellow horns from the cows!
"Once in the Red Light, when a party who's new from Tucson, turns in to tell some light story of Billy, him not bein' present none, 'Doby goes all over this yere racontoor like a landslide, an' retires him from s'ciety for a week. An' 'Doby don't explain his game neither; jest reprimands this offensive Tucson gent, an' lets it go as it lays.
For a moment, as the three parties stood together in the ancient temple, in the glare of many torches, no one spoke. Then Professor Bumper found his voice. "We are glad to see you," he said to his rival. "That is glad to see you alive, for we saw the landslide bury you. And we were coming to dig you out.
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