When we reached the spot and
unearthed the little box the instrument was quiet, nor did repeated attempts upon the part of our telegrapher succeed in winning a response from the other end of the line.
Wrapped in matting, well oiled, free from rust, and brand new, two Winchesters were first
unearthed. Sheldon did not recognize them.
For two days they labored to tear a way through to their imprisoned friends; but when, after Herculean efforts, they had
unearthed but a few yards of the choked passage, and discovered the mangled remains of one of their fellows they were forced to the conclusion that Tarzan and the second Waziri also lay dead beneath the rock mass farther in, beyond human aid, and no longer susceptible of it.
He found "pay" that was no more than "wages" on a dozen surface bars, and from the generous spread of flour gold in the muck and gravel of a score of creeks, he was more confident than ever that coarse gold in quantity was waiting to be
unearthed. Often he turned his eyes to the northward ridge of hills, and pondered if the gold came from them.
So Martin
unearthed a carbon copy of "Star-dust," and during the reading of it Brissenden chuckled, rubbed his hands, and forgot to sip his toddy.
The box was soon
unearthed. It was not very large; it was iron bound and had been very strong before the slow years had injured it.
Some eggs they found, and these he sucked raw, as also he ate roots and tubers which Akut
unearthed. Beyond the plain and across a low bluff they came upon water-- brackish, ill-smelling stuff in a shallow water hole, the sides and bottom of which were trampled by the feet of many beasts.
In fact, the minister, who, in the plenitude of his power, had been unable to
unearth Napoleon's secret, might in despair at his own downfall interrogate Dantes and so lay bare the motives of Villefort's plot.
