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Updated: May 14, 2025
Adam was really happy to meet her wishes, not from any sentiment, but because he wished to give some valid and ostensible reason for examining the passage of the Worm, which would obviate any suspicion resulting from his being on the premises. He brought from London a Kelvin sounding apparatus, with a sufficient length of piano-wire for testing any probable depth.
He had saved my life, but I did not tell him so, for such occurrences are taken as part of the day's work, and the sledge he safeguarded was of much more importance, for it held, as part of its load, the Commander's sextant, the mercury, and the coils of piano-wire that were the essential portion of the scientific part of the expedition.
I sought cautiously to move my cramped limbs, unlike Smith, who seeming to have sinews of piano-wire, crouched beside me immovable, untiringly. Then loud upon the stillness, broke the strident note of the telephone bell. I started, nervously, clutching at Smith's arm. It felt hard as iron to my grip. "Hullo!" I heard Slattin call "who is speaking?... Yes, yes! This is Mr.
Evidently the man withdrew at that; for a complete silence followed which prevailed for fully half an hour. I sought cautiously to move my cramped limbs, unlike Smith, who seeming to have sinews of piano-wire, crouched beside me immovable, untiringly. Then loud upon the stillness, broke the strident note of the telephone bell. I started, nervously, clutching at Smith's arm.
"Steady, girl, steady!" came the engineer's warning, tense as piano-wire. "Almost there, now. What's that?" For a brief instant he hesitated. The girl felt his arm grow even more taut, she heard his breath catch. Then she, too, looked and saw. It was enough, that sight, to have smitten with sick horror the bravest man who ever lived.
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