Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-23

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 swung the boats nose round. By chance he used the starboard oar. All death, and life won. They crashed through some dropping foliage and ran into crumbling bank. Gray unship- ped the oar and damned it straight down. It stuck between stones at a depth of three feet, and the lifeboat was held fast for the time. The ca- noes hurtled against each other, but were swept aside instantly. When the noise ceased they plainly heard the swirl of the water. In their new en- vironment it had the uncanny and sin ister hiss of some monstrous snake.
 Everybody happy" Gray demanded coolly.
 q am clinging to tree trunk" an swered Elsie.
 Bully for you. Make fast with piece of rope. But be careful to pro- vide a slipknot in case we have to sheer of in a hurry. Can you manage that"
 Quite we'll
 Elsie was fully aware that the lead ership of the expedition had gone from her. She was not sorry. It was in strong hands. Suarez, too. secured a stout branch and passed a rope around 1t.
 Now, silence and listen." said Gray.
 They soon detected a curiously sub iued clamor from the inner recesses of the cleft. At first almost indistinguish- able, it gradually assumed the peculiar attribute of immense volumes of dis tant sound and filled the ear to the ex- clusion of all else. It was like nothing any of them had heard before. Now it recalled the roar of a mighty waterfall, and again its strange melody brought memories of river in food. But the Dominant note was the grinding noise of innumerable millstOnes. It cowed them all. Even the dog was afraid.
 Guess we tied up just in time." ex- claimed Gray. feeling the need of speech. A little sob answered him. Elsie was beginning 10 admit the sheer hopelesSness of her undertaking.
 Now. cheer ID. 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 way we came aud take our chance. But it will soon be broad daylight and I'll answer for it that if Captain COurte- nay is yet alive he is not between us and the mouth of the inlet or he would have cOntrived some sort of racket 70 let us know his whereabouts. Now, Il propose that our friend in the bows he asked to shin up the clifT and prospect bit. He ought ta know how to crawl through this undergrowth. Fifty feet higher he will be able to see some dis tance.-
 Susrez was very reluctant to leave the bost. hut the American adopted a short cut in the argument. offering him the alternative of climbing ashore or of heinz thrown overheard.
 So the Argentine adopted the less nazardous method sHd eiimned to the bank A splash and a scramble and a sight exclamation from Elsie tod that the dog had followed soon the swish of leaves and the crzckIing of rotten w0Bi ceased. SGzrez might be out Of ssrsh0t or merely hiding for a time, i7- tending 10 return with news of an i'm psSsabIe prscipice- There wss a crunb of comfort in the sbsence Of the ter Ter. Joey volld either % oa or cons | hack t0 them at ozoe-
 Cray felt that the giri wss too heart ] h-okea ts talk He listened to the ch0rus cF that witches cal3rua in the hezrt of the deS.e ard vz+ehai the zrav IiEht slowly stchsnz q path tEro1Eh tse trees untfi if t01ch- ] s1 ths fast ruzni1z water with at