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Updated: June 29, 2025
On the other hand, those on the upper part of the life-line could steady their companions over ledges and down the steeper crevices, while the leaders helped the ones who followed by hammering footholds in the rock and at the very worst places driving in picket-pins to hold the extra ropes brought down for the purpose. Still, Deep Cañon was Deep Cañon the ladder it offered was a ladder of Titans.
Park, who was cook this week, had gone to the village for supplies, and so the captain and Tod were alone in the house, the others, with the exception of Morgan, who was at his home in the village with a sprained ankle, being at work some distance away on a crosshead over which the life-line was always fired in gun practice.
It would have been impossible to keep a footing upon the main-deck without a life-line or something to hold on by; and seeing this, and forming my resolutions rapidly, I ordered the man in the bow of the boat to throw in his oar and exchange places with me, and head the boat for the starboard port-chains.
Adventures, heart affairs, fortunes, perils such a life-line, Mr. Glover. On my word there you are hanging by a hair a hair on the verge of eternity " Glover laughed softly. "Oh, come, Louise," protested Mrs. Whitney. "Touch on lighter lines, please." "Lighter lines! Why, Mr. Glover's heart-line is a perfect cañon." The laughter did not daunt her. "A perfect cañon.
From the captain on the bridge, dripping in his oil- skins, to the coal-passers and firemen below who fed the mighty furnaces, to the cooks in the galley, the engineers, the electrician on duty, the lookout man in the bow clinging to the life-line when the Minnehaha buried her nose out of sight all these perforce had to endure and suffer at Florence's bidding without question or revolt.
He'll have to throw out the life-line if Laure gets onto that. She'll take to Letty just like a lone timber-wolf." "Looks like she'd been kiddin' us, don't it? She calls him her 'brother' and he says she's his masseur you heard him, didn't you?" There was another pause. "What's a masseur, anyhow?" "A masseur," said Mr. Broad, "is one of those women in a barber- shop that fixes your fingernails.
"If they'll let me," said Joe, "I'd like to go down and try to free that diver from whatever is holding him." "You go down? Are you a diver?" "Not the kind that uses a suit, no. But I do a diving and tank act in the circus." Joe's offer and his talk had aroused instant attention from the crowd about him and from the men at the air pumps and life-line.
In another minute or so, Dr Nettleby and his factotum managed to slide down by the aid of the after life-line into the sternsheets of the boat; though, they took their seats in a rather hurried fashion beside the lieutenant and myself. Then, watching our opportunity to lower away, we managed so to time it that the cutter lighted on the crest of one of the rollers.
So thick and strong was the material, there was really no danger of tearing it, and in great glee the girls grasped their life-line and half slid, half clambered down. They came down on the floor with a sudden thump, but in safety.
Of course his distracted wife hauled in on the life-line with all her might, and Chok-foo and Ram-stam, forsaking the pump, lent their aid and soon hauled the luckless diver into the boat, when his first act was to deal the Chinamen a cuff each that sent one into the stern-sheets on his nose, and the other into the bow on his back.
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