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Updated: May 6, 2025
Behind them, her hands clasped to her breast crying out to them to hurry, hurry stood Peggy Blackton. The strength of five men was in every pair of arms. Huge boulders were rolled back. Men pawed earth and shale with their naked hands. Rock-hammers fell with blows that would have cracked the heart of a granite obelisk.
They no longer heard sounds nothing but the crumbling and falling of dust and pebbles where the bullets had struck, and their own heart-beats. The picks and rock-hammers had ceased. Tighter and tighter grew the clasp of Joanne's fingers, and a terrible thought flashed into John's brain. Perhaps a, rock from the slide had cut a wire, and they had found the wire had repaired it!
Where those picks and rock-hammers fell a score of men were working like fiends: Blackton, his arms stripped to the shoulders; Gregg, sweating and urging the men; and among them lifting and tearing at the rock like a madman old Donald MacDonald, his shirt open, his great hands bleeding, his hair and beard tossing about him in the wind.
Aldous saw her struggling to understand to comprehend; and he kissed her soft upturned lips, fighting back the excitement that made him want to raise his voice again in wild and joyous shouting. "It is Blackton!" he said over and over again. "It is Blackton and his men! Listen! you can hear their picks and the pounding of their rock-hammers!"
"It is an answer. There is no longer doubt." He was holding out his arms to her, and she came into them with a choking cry; and now she sobbed like a little child with her head against his breast, and for many minutes he held her close, kissing her wet face, and her damp hair, and her quivering lips, while the beat of the picks and the crash of the rock-hammers came steadily nearer.
Hear hear the rock-hammers smashing! Joanne Joanne we are saved!" She did not sense him. She swayed, half on her feet, half in his arms, as consciousness and reason returned to her. Dazedly her hands went to his face in their old, sweet way.
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