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"Now, silence! and listen!" said Gray

They soon detected a curiously subdued clamor frouishable, it gradually assumed

the peculiar attribute of immense volumes of distant sound, and filled

the ear to the exclusion of all else It was like nothing any of thehty waterfall, and

again its strange ht merinding noise of innumerable mill-stones It

cowed the was afraid

"Guess we tied up just in ti the need of

speech A little sob answered hi to ad

"Now, cheer up, Miss Maxwell," said he "All the water that is going

in must come out by the same road At the worst, we can skate back the

e caht,

and I'll answer for it that if Captain Courtenay is yet alive he is not

between us and the mouth of the inlet, or he would have contrived some

sort of racket to let us know his whereabouts Now, I propose that our

friend in the bows be asked to shin up the cliff and prospect a bit

He ought to kno to crawl through this undergrowth Fifty feet