They opened it to a blackness that seemed to stand as another and an iron door before them, but to nothing else.
"Somebody went by then," said Uncle Dick, turning to Collinson.

"Didn't you hear it ?" "Nary," said Collinson patiently, without moving from the chimney.
"What in God's name was it, then ?" "Only some of them boulders you loosed coming down.

It's touch and go with them for days after.

When I first came here I used to start up and rush out into the road--like as you would--yellin' and screechin' after folks that never was there and never went by.

Then it got kinder monotonous, and I'd lie still and let 'em slide.