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Updated: June 29, 2025
The life-line which the woman had set up was all that stood between them and complete disaster. Winter with all its deadly perils had become a memory. Life was supreme again on the plateau of Unaga. It was in the air, in the breezes sweeping down from the Northern hills, where the crystal snow caps no longer had power to inspire distrust. It was in the flowing waters of the river.
Before I found courage to tell her that which would blast hopes wrapped round and rooted in her very heart, and, fortunately, before I had to confess to her the debts I had made, Edward Ramsay threw me a life-line. He came bustling into my office one afternoon, big and broad, and obviously pleased with himself, and, therefore, with the world.
And these three things a rope, a line and a hose descending into the mysterious water were the only links that connected the diver with life. That he was still alive was evident, for now and then there came a feeble pull on the life-line.
They were now directly in the rear of the storm, and as the air-ship headed across that track of destruction, it gave a drunken stagger, casting down its inmates, from whose parching lips burst cries of varying import. "Air! I'm choking!" gasped Bruno, tearing open his shirt-collar with a spasmodic motion. "Hold me fast!" echoed Waldo, clinging desperately to the life-line.
When you get down to the bottom, give one only one pull on the life-line, which means `All right, and I'll give one pull in reply.
The water being dense and very dark its light did not penetrate far, but close to the bull's-eye it was sufficiently strong to enable our hero to see what he was about. Having fixed the line, he was about to move in the direction of the wreck when he received one pull on his life-line.
"Then I'm sorry for the 'highway. I remember when I first heard you in Pittsburg, long ago. It was a life-line you threw me. It's about one of the people along your highway that I've come to see you. Whom do you consider the best teacher for voice in Chicago?" Mr. Thomas frowned and pulled his heavy mustache. "Let me see; I suppose on the whole Madison Bowers is the best.
With exquisite patience, he slowly withdrew one sucking arm and then the other and rested them flat on the surface for the support of his chin. Then he began to call for help. After a time he heard the sound of feet sucking through the mud as some one advanced from behind. "Lend a hand, friend," he said. "Throw out a life-line or something."
All sail being set, he now cast loose the life-line, reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were hoisting him thither, when, while but two-thirds of the way aloft, and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the air, "There she blows! there she blows!
At this point Rooney's heart almost failed him, but, catching sight of Maxwell's half-amused, half-contemptuous face, he stepped resolutely on the ladder, and began to descend in haste. "Hold on!" roared Baldwin, laying hold of the life-line. "Why, man alive, you're off without the front-glass!" "Och! Whirra! So I am," said Rooney, pausing.
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