I am satisfied now, from what I have seen, that it is really a rupture of the whole strata all the way down.

That's the one weak point that the imprisoned water is sure to find, and that's where the borer will tap it--in the new well that the earthquake itself has sunk." It seemed to her now that she understood his explanation perfectly, and she wondered the more that he had been so mistaken in his estimate of Adele.

She turned away a little impatiently and looked anxiously towards the point where Dawson had disappeared.

Bent followed her eyes.
"He'll be here in a moment, Miss Mallory.

He has to drive slowly through the grain, but I hear the wheels." He stopped, and his voice took up its previous note of boyish hesitation.