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But the exalass the walls were, and the floor as well, perhaps worn down by countless prisoners
The iron door, cleverly let into the wall, lay flush with it, and offered not the slightest irregularity to the touch So nicely was it fitted that not even Stern's finger-nail could penetrate the joint
"Nothing doing in the escape line," he passed judgly "Barbarians these people certainly are, in so down fine I, as an engineer, have to appreciate that, and give the remote descendants of our race credit for it, even if it works our ruin Gad, but they're clever, though!"
Discouraged, in spite of all his atteain, there in the deep and velvet dark To himself he drew her; and, his arm about her sinuous, supple body, tried to co speech
"Well, Beatrice, they haven't got us yet! We're better off, on the whole, than we had any right to hope for, after having fallen one or two hundred et a word or tith these confounded barbarians, I'll hty good little fort here I pity anybody that tries to coet us"
"Oh, Allan--those skeletons, those headless skeletons!" she whispered; and in his arms he felt her shudder with unconquerable fear
"I know; but they aren't going to add us to their little collection, you mark my words! These h they have slid back into barbariset a chance at the of the abyss and of their fall--now of one phase, now another, of their frightful position--they passed an hour in the stifling dark
And, joining their observations and ideas, they were able to get soeneral idea of the conditions under which these incredible folk were dwelling
From the warmth of the sea and the immense quantities of vapor that filled the abyss, they concluded that it must be at a tremendous depth in the earth--perhaps as far down as Stern's extreuess of five hundred e extent
Beatrice had noted also that the water was salt This led them to the conclusion that in some way or other, perhaps inter the subterranean sea
"If I'ineer, "that tremendous maelstroot us, just after we started out--has so very vital to do with this situation