The water may have been only diverted by the shock and might be found again at the lower level, or in some lateral fissure.

He had sent hurriedly for Tom Bent--that clever young engineer at the wheat ranch, who was always studying up these things with his inventions--and that was his opinion.
No, Tom was not a well-digger, but it was generally known that he had "located" one or two, and had long ago advised the tapping of that flow by a second boring, in case of just such an emergency.

He was coming again to-morrow.

By the way, he had asked how the young lady visitor was, and hoped she had not been alarmed by the earthquake! Rose felt herself again blushing, and, what was more singular, with an unexpected and it seemed to her ridiculous pleasure, although outwardly she appeared to ignore the civility completely.

And she had no intention of being so easily placated.