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"Shock! Shock!" I cried, but there was no reply, and it sounded as if

my voice was squeezed up in a narrowed space; then I see noise as I stepped forward, I was kicked violently in the shins

and fell forithinto aupon my companion, as half

buried

The perspiration stood out all over ain to find that Shock was kicking frantically, and a

ation toldone of his legs, which as I grasped by the ankle and clasped it

to ed with all ed again he seeive

a tremendous throb, and I went backwards, followed, it seemed to me in

the darkness, by a quantity of soft sand; but Shock was free, for I

could feel hi on his face, and as I turned hiroan

And now a horrible sensation of fear cahly

realised that I was buried alive in that sand-cave I felt thatabout on the top of the cliff had loosened or cracked the

compressed sand Shock and I had juathered, and that seemed to be the explanation of

the mishap

But I had no tiht that perhaps