“As the approaching dawn flooded the world in a sea of light and as the sun looked silently on, with one accord they flung themselves into the rushing waters below!”
CHAPTER XIX—RIP MAKES HIMSELF HEARD
“Shut up!” Westy said vehemently and looked meaningly at Rip when Lola paused in her narrative.
“What are you chirping about, Birdie?” Rip came back, surprised. “I didn’t say a word yet!”
“Well, you were going to and you can thank me now that you didn’t!”
“I’ll be darned!” was all that Rip could find suitable to say.
“Do you promise not to quarrel again—either of you, if I finish?” Lola sounded serious.
“Sure, we do!”
“When the enemy reached the cliff that had been so precipitous, their amazement knew no bounds to see that it had been reduced to half its former size and the cliff dwellings a mass of solid gray rock, as if they had never been there at all. Running all the way down to the water’s edge, a series of indentations had been formed as if chiseled by a human hand.
“All was as silent and still as the tomb. The great waterfall rushing over the cliff to the west had disappeared as well and the rocky surface that had been wet with the spray for ages was now bone dry in the hot sun.