St Nicholas [serial] . At this moment our hero was startled by The cold sweat covered his brow as the full the violent ringing of an electric bell fastened significance of this fact struck him. I am lost! he exclaimed, in despair. There must have been more air in the tubethan the doctor calculated, and now it haskept the car back so much that I shall nevercome anywhere near New York, but will keepfalling backward and forward in the tube until1 finally come to a stop in the center, andthere I may have to remain several days be-fore the doctor can devise some means offishing me out — dead or ali
St Nicholas [serial] . At this moment our hero was startled by The cold sweat covered his brow as the full the violent ringing of an electric bell fastened significance of this fact struck him. I am lost! he exclaimed, in despair. There must have been more air in the tubethan the doctor calculated, and now it haskept the car back so much that I shall nevercome anywhere near New York, but will keepfalling backward and forward in the tube until1 finally come to a stop in the center, andthere I may have to remain several days be-fore the doctor can devise some means offishing me out — dead or alive! to one of the instruments, while at the sametime a warning sign appeared, bearing in largeblack letters the word : DANGER! A microphone attached to the side of thecar at the same moment began working, andto Williams ears was borne an ominous rum-bling and grumbling, like the muttering of dis-tant thunder. He understood but too well thesignificance of that sound. It meant that some ;82 THROUGH THE EARTH. 3t [ there is but one hope, said the doctor gravely. if the tube can only hold out for a short time longer, all may yet be well ! mighty internal commotion was taking place the ominous rumble was brought to Doctor in the interior of the earth, and that it portended Giless ears, and closely following it, he noticed an danger to him! irregularity in the working of the pump that served At the same moment, on the Australian island, to force the refrigerating agents into the tube. THROUGH THE EARTH. 183 The whole truth flashed upon him in aninstant. Something must have happened tothe tube! A portion of the passages for conducting therefrigerating agents, under the combined influ-ence of the excessive heat and the excessivecold, must have become clogged up at somepoint, and the liquid was thus shut off fromcertain portions of the tube. The doctors face blanched as he realizedthe full meaning of these signs. Evidently, if the refrigerating agents could not circulate,the carb
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