Then, all of a sudden, within sixty seconds, it may sink before our very eyes.

Suppose it were to sink while a trainload of human beings was passing over it!" "You might as well dismiss all such thoughts," Reade counseled.

"I tell you, Harry, we've proved that our principle is sound.

Now, we will go ahead and finish the job.

When we go away from here I, for one, shall feel certain that the Man-killer must behave for all time to come.
Harry, there's a limit to the shifting tendency of a quicksand, and to-day's test proves to me that we've found it.