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He could do nothing but wait and call out now and then, and hope that somebody might soon take the short cut through the woods, and, hearing his voice, come to his relief. His courage gave way when he reflected that the river would rise with the heavy rain which he could hear steadily splashing through the sink-hole, and for a time all prudent men would go by the beaten road and the ford.
"Ay, lass, that's how I left the fens of Lincolnshire a year last April Fool's Day. There wasn't a dyke from, Lincoln town to Mablethorpe that I hadn't crossed with a running jump; and there wasn't a break in the shore, or a sink-hole in the sand, or a clump of rushes, or a samphire bed, from Skegness to Theddlethorpe, that I didn't know like every line of your face.
If the volume of water pouring down through the sink-hole should increase to any considerable extent, he would be drowned here like a rat. Was he to have his wish, and see his brother never again? And poor Ben! How his own cruel, wicked parting words would scourge him throughout his life, even when he should grow old! Thad's eyes filled with tears of prescient pity for his brother's remorse.
March, holding his torch high above his head, took a step in advance of the others as they were examining the rifle, and uttered a cry of horror. "A sink-hole! Good heavens! the boy is down there!" A cold chill went through his hearers at these words, and they gathered close to the edge of the opening and peered into its black depths.
He advised against it. Not that the heat was intense at this season, he explained, but there were other dangers, particularly the brittle salty crust of the sink-hole. Nevertheless we were not deterred from our purpose. So with plenty of water in canteens and a few biscuits in our pockets we set out.
"But, Master Mark, I'm sure that it comes from the river, where there's that sink-hole in the narrow, where you see the water turn round and round." "Very likely; but here, I must see your father. Take a light, and go before me. Here, Dummy, are there plenty of torches?" "Yes, Master Mark; but what do you want with torches?" "Don't ask questions, sirrah."
The pursuers fired at the Indians but missed. The latter became alarmed and confused, and Mrs. Daviess taking advantage of this circumstance jumped into a sink-hole with her infant in her arms. The Indians fled and every child was saved.
Beyond the Wilderness is the Marble Cave property and the entrance to the Cave is through a large sink-hole in the top of Roark Mountain. This hole is said to be about two hundred feet long, one hundred feet wide and thirty-five feet deep.
But the young secretary of embassy was not of age and again she was forced to depart for Paris that sink-hole for refugees of all sorts. His family put pressure on the officiale who in turn applied it to the luckless intriguante. Farewell, the future in which a semi-imperial coronet hand gleamed! even that where a cascade of gold coin inundated the new Danae.
Simpson replied sombrely that something had happened, she didn't know what that Yerkes put it down to "the sink-hole," which according to him was "always doing it" that there were two trains in front of them at a standstill, and trains coming up every minute behind them. "My dear Simpson! that must be an exaggeration. There aren't trains every minute on the C.P.R. Is Mr. Philip awake?"
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