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Updated: May 5, 2025
If the enemy come, take him prisoner; but you are not to fire without cause." "Without what, Sergeant?" "Cause, idiot. Don't you know your own language?" Plosh! "Oh, there's one of them big scrawlers. Keep your eyes open, and don't go to sleep." "All right, Sergeant." "Don't be so handy with that tongue of yours, sir. Listen, and don't talk. Do you know what will happen if you do go to sleep?"
This was done, and the horses set to draw, when one by one a dozen massive pieces were drawn aside, leaving a little opening, through which I dropped a stone, with the result that those who listened heard a deep-sounding plosh! and set up a cheer. Then other two slabs were dragged away, to lay bare a roughly squared hole six feet across, from which the water could be easily drawn up.
"What! not smoke?" "No; don't go to sleep. You will get fever." "Who says so?" "The Doctor." "Oh, bother!" "Now then, what do you say to going as far as his bungalow and telling the ladies that the river has never looked more beautiful?" Plosh! "Beautiful river!" said the Captain mockingly. "Like to take them on it perhaps in a boat?"
Then there was a loud crashing sound, some water flew up, the monk uttered a final "Oh!" and lay perfectly still, listening, for all at once a familiar voice cried: "Oh, come here, quick! A sheep has gone plosh into the pool."
There was another plosh, but they had proof soon after that the words had been heard, for the hail now came: "Are yer 'live, my lad?" "Ye-es," cried Aleck. "Quite!" and then he could in his excitement hardly control a hysterical laugh at the absurdity of the question and answer. "Thought yer was dead and gone, my lad," came now, in company with a fainter splashing. "Tom Bodger!"
"I say, we did not come up here to begin gold-hunting," said Brace reproachfully. "No, of course not. Ours is a naturalists' trip, and this is testing the mineralogy of the district," said Briscoe, with a peculiar smile. Plosh! Another shovelful of gravelly sand was raised and placed in the second bowl. Then the shovel was driven in, to stand upright. "Now," cried Briscoe, "wash away."
But the tide was ebbing steadily, and the tiny arc of the rocks which showed the way in was growing more open, so that at the end of a few minutes they heard plainly: "Where'bouts are yer, my lad?" "In here!" shouted Aleck, but only in face of a dull plosh.
"Look here," I said, kicking at the flooring and loosening a shaley piece of stone about as big as my hand; "I'll throw this down." I pitched the piece into the darkness below, and we listened for it to strike, but listened in vain for a few seconds, and then: Plosh! "Water!" I cried. "Why, we've found the well."
The crash was echoed, and seemed to reverberate round and round some great vault, and then came directly after a dull, solemn, weird-sounding plosh! evidently not many feet below where they were standing. After this, there were peculiar whisperings and sounds, as if numbers of disturbed occupants of the water were beating and lapping at the walls of the place: then silence once more.
Just as George was about to dive below, there was a sharp report followed by the "plosh" of a bullet, as it dropped into the water just a few yards ahead of the vessel. "Duck down under the bulwarks," said Naoum hurriedly, "they can't have seen you yet. The bank is lined with rebels," he went on, gazing hard through the gathering darkness. "Allah! but they mean to bring us to book!"
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