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When George reached it he waited until the engineer had finished talking to a man on the line. "What are we stopping for? Has anything gone wrong?" he asked. "Freight locomotive jumped the track at a wash-out some miles ahead," explained the engineer. "Took the fireman with her; but I don't know much about it yet. Guess they'll want me soon."

The horses were grazing quietly, and Bucks, examining his revolver, which he had all the time felt he was wretchedly incompetent to shoot, sat down beside Stanley, already fast asleep, to stand his watch. He had lost Sublette's rifle in falling into the wash-out.

What water we found was in small pools in the wash-out places near the foothills at the edge of the valley, probably running down the ravines after some storm. There were dry lake beds scattered around over the plain, but it did not seem as if there had ever been volume of water enough lately to force itself out so far into the plain as these lakes were.

There was still room for the more hardened optimist to hope that something of some sort had occurred, or that something of some sort had been averted, and that the whole affair was not, in the delicious new slang phrase of the Padre's, which was spreading like wildfire through Tilling, a "wash-out." Pistols might have been innocuously discharged for all that was known to the contrary.

The men got wet and their clothes could not be dried, and Carrie was not sheltered much by a rubber sheet, while when they struck a wash-out all were forced to carry their tools and stores across slippery gravel. Carrie had not grumbled, but it was rough work and Jim knew she must have felt some strain. "She oughtn't to have come," he said. "Why weren't you firm?"

One of these mortal cases was a young lieutenant. He knew himself that there was little or no hope for him, but he smoked a cigarette and spoke with composure, or simulated composure, to the doctor and the chaplain. 'Hello, padre, he said, 'looks like a wash-out for me this time. You'll have to break it to the pater, you know. Afraid he'll take it rather hard too.

Santa turned to the old gent, Hill said talking as polite as a Pullman conductor and told him since he'd been so kind to his unhappy niece he hoped he'd come along with 'em to the hotel too where he'd be more comfortable, Santa said, getting something to eat and drink than he would be kicking around the deepo waiting till they'd filled in the wash-out and the train could start.

"Why, Mr. Barton," she said, "we couldn't get home now in all this storm and darkness and wash-out to save our lives. But even if it were moonlight," she singsonged, "and starlight and high-noon; even if there were chariots at the door, I'm not going home now till I've finished my scrap-book if it takes a week." "Eh?" jerked Barton. "What?" Laboriously he edged himself forward.

Between it and the other lower ledge is a canyon that might be the one Montresor found on his up-climb. Yonder the slope meets the chasm and above is the steep sides leading to Top Notch Trail. Could not the land-slide have buried this wall and then a great wash-out have cleared it again? If we only had a gushing mountain stream pouring from the cliff-side the setting would be complete!"

First, is it possible, as I said before dinner, that any man would commit such an idiotic murder a murder that puts the rope so very tightly round his neck? Bill considered this carefully, and then nodded slowly again. "Yes, my simple explanation is a wash-out," he said. "Now let's have yours." Antony did not answer him. He had begun to think about something quite different.

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