Capitolo 15
walked again his/her way with looking for footsteps to the equally ruinous mass
behind them. The eyes of Elma, gradually state gotten used to the
the obscurity and the weak glint of the oil shine, it followed his
action with vague and crying interest.
"If the roof doesn't give way", he finally said calmly, when him
once more returned to her, "and if we am only able farloro to know that we am
I live in the tunnel, they can dig out possibly before we suffocate.
There is here enough air for eighteen hours for us."
He very quietly spoke and reassuringly, as if being closed above in a
fallen tunnel among two masses of earth it was a matter that doesn't have need
you provoke one the uneasiness of slightest; but its words suggested
The mind of Elma a coolness and until here unthought-of danger.
"Eighteen hours", she cried, it horror-struck. "You mean to say
can we have to stop here, entirely alone for eighteen hours together?
Oh, as very terrible! How much time! As scary! And if theirs don't do
I/you/he/she dig out us in front of eighteen hours you/he/she is ended, you mean to say us
will it die to suffocate?"
Cyril looked fixed down to her with a very sorry and comprehensive face.
"I didn't mean to frighten her/it", he said; "at least, not more than
You are already frightened; but, there is clearly, only a certain
amount of oxygen in the space that is left there; and as us we are using
it above to every breath, it will contain out naturally for limited once
only. You/he/she cannot be a lot more than eighteen hours. Anchor, I don't do
you doubt that they will start to immediately to dig out us; and if theirs dig through
fast, they can be still in duration, even this way, to save us."
Elma turned in before again with his/her face in his/her hands, and, cradling
her before and back in an agony of the desperation, vip was given to a
paroxysm of absolute uneasiness. This was also, too much terrible. To think of
eighteen hours in that obscurity and the anxiety; and then finally to die,
troubling very hard, in the poisonous air of that pestilential