THE END.
What remains to be told is of little public interest. When we came to
ourselves, all was darkness. Escape seemed impossible.
We could not swarm up the rope, by the way we had come.
We knew not when the shaft of yellow light might return on its beat.
We lit a Bryant & May's match, and thereby groped our way downwards,
ever downwards.
Finally, as we had given up all for lost, Leonora said, 'Don't you
think the air is a little stuffy?'
We sniffed about the rocky floor, and found an iron grating.
It yielded to a strong tug, and we descended into subterranean
passages, framed by the art of men, through which rolled and surged
torrents of turbid water.
Through these we waded, attacked by armies of rats, till, thank
goodness! we saw a moving light, flashing hither and thither on the
torrent.
Half swimming, half wading, we reached the bearer of the light.
It was old Pellmelli, 'doing a Sanitary special,' as he told us.
We, somewhat deceitfully, led him to believe that we had lost ourselves
on a similar errand, for a rival Budget, with which he was concerned in
a Paper Mill.[30]
[30]
What do you mean by a Paper Mill?--PUBLISHER.
A Journalistic War, then.--ED.
On our faithfully promising to give him exclusive information about our
adventures, 'for an Extra,' as he said, old Pellmelli conducted us to
an orifice in the rock, whence we escaped, at last, into the light of
such day as dwells in the Dark City.
Our hopes now entirely rest on finding Jambres again, but it may be, of
course, a good three or four thousand years before that.
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have only one question to ask myself--Will this thing go on? will
Jambres and Leonora meet? will the Americans give up Jambres under the
Extradition Act? or----
Is the great drama Played Out?--ED.
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