She turned and began to force her way through the press of people between her and the south abutment. She arrived there, disheveled and panting, to find Slater, Mellen, and Parker standing in the approach. In front of them extended the long skeleton tunnel into which Murray had gone.
"Mr. O'Neil is out there!" she cried to Tom.
Slater turned and, reading the tragic appeal in her face, said reassuringly:
"Sure! But he's all right."
"They say—there's danger."
"Happy Tom's" round visage puckered into a doubtful smile. "Oh, he'll take care of himself."
Mellen turned to the girl and said briefly:
"There's no danger whatever."
But Eliza's fear was not to be so easily quieted.
"Then why did he go out alone? What are you men doing here?"