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"But none of us ever manufactured dynamite," answered Boston, with a grin. "How long did they have you in Moro Castle, Doc?" "Eight months," snapped the doctor, his face clouding. "Eight months in that rathole, with the loss of my property and practice all for devotion to science. I was on the brink of the most important and beneficent discovery in explosives the world ever dreamed of.
I saw the débris being cleared away, before the drills should begin to grind again; and the remembrance that, in another rathole on the Swiss side, another party of workers was patiently advancing towards us, in precisely the same way, sent a mysterious thrill through my blood. "Suppose the two galleries don't meet end to end?" I spoke out my thought. "But they will," said Bolzano.
And we were off again. Through the empty streets we roared on. A place of gasometers and desolate waste lots slipped behind and we were in a narrow way where gates of yards and a few lowly houses faced upon a prospect of high blank wall. "Thames on our right," said Smith, peering ahead. "His rathole is by the river as usual. Hi!" he grabbed up the speaking-tube "Stop! Stop!"
"A rotten rathole," snarled Denver to his companion in that inimitable, guarded whisper. "How we ever coming back this way in a hurry?" It thrilled Terry to hear that appeal an indirect surrendering of the leadership to him. Again he led the way, stealing toward a ghost of light that issued upward from the center of the floor. Presently he could look down through it.
The tug rushed straight through the bullet-rumpled water to the point where the metal fin had disappeared, like a terrier dashing at a rathole. With the disappearance of the submarine's "eye," the fusillade ceased abruptly. The great cannon were firing more slowly now and there came short intervals of comparative silence in the battle.
Pierre the Rat, who ran "The Rathole," where penniless seamen and beachcombers lodged, was my creditor, and when Pierre was very solicitous in obtaining employment for one of his boarders, it was a mighty good intimation that the boarder's credit had reached highwater mark. "Well," I said, climbing to my feet, "I might as well take it.
And we were off again. Through the empty streets we roared on. A place of gasometers and desolate waste lots slipped behind and we were in a narrow way where gates of yards and a few lowly houses faced upon a prospect of high blank wall. "Thames on our right," said Smith, peering ahead. "His rathole is by the river as usual. Hi!" he grabbed up the speaking-tube "Stop! Stop!"
I think it is still questioned whether there was any such person as the one named, at any rate, it bore the characteristic marks of those vulgar anonymous communications which rarely receive any attention unless they are important enough to have the police set on the track of the writer to find his rathole, if possible.
"You dropped none of the shoes on your way up, Smith?" "Not one, sir. It was a fine performance." Mr. Downing uttered a grunt of satisfaction, and bent once more to his task. Shoes flew about the room. Mr. Downing knelt on the floor beside the basket, and dug like a terrier at a rathole. At last he made a dive, and, with an exclamation of triumph, rose to his feet. In his hand he held a shoe.
I ain't seen much of you, but I guess I figure you straight." He grew suddenly cautious, cunning, and the steady, gray-blue eyes reminded Harrigan of a cat when she crouches for hours watching the rathole. "You ain't got much reason for standing in with White Henshaw?" he purred. "H'm," grunted the Irishman, and waited.
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