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           CyrusHardingandhiscompanionsthenclimbedthespurrisingbetweenthecorralvalleyandthatofFallsRiver,whichtheycrossedatitsnarrowestpart.Thewire,sometimesstretchedoverthelowerbranchesofthetrees,sometimeslyingontheground,guidedthemsurely.Theengineerhadsupposedthatthewirewouldperhapsstopatthebottomofthevalley,andthatthestranger’sretreatwouldbethere.

           Nothingofthesort.Theywereobligedtoascendthesouth-westernspur,andre-descendonthataridplateauterminatedbythestrangely-wildbasaltcliff.Fromtimetotimeoneofthecolonistsstoopeddownandfeltforthewirewithhishands;buttherewasnownodoubtthatthewirewasrunningdirectlytowardsthesea.There,toacertainty,inthedepthsofthoserocks,wasthedwellingsolongsoughtforinvain.

           Theskywasliterallyonfire.Flashsucceededflash.Severalstruckthesummitofthevolcanointhemidstofthethicksmoke.Itappearedthereasifthemountainwasvomitingflame.Atafewminutestoeleventhecolonistsarrivedonthehighcliffoverlookingtheoceantothewest.Thewindhadrisen.Thesurfroared500feetbelow.

           Hardingcalculatedthattheyhadgoneamileandahalffromthecorral.

           Atthispointthewireenteredamongtherocks,followingthesteepsideofanarrowravine.Thesettlersfolloweditattheriskofoccasioningafalloftheslightly-balancedrocks,andbeingdashedintothesea.

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