Subject: probing

From: "Bill Stroud" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:59:56 +0300

There he drank deeply, and tried to restrain his hurry.
Death Valley was hidden,and for that Adam was glad. Adam saw, even as he knocked back another rush of the other man. Dismukes appeared to get deep satisfaction and even happiness out of thisaccomplished task.
You sure did come near gettin it cut then, replied Dismukes, with ahard laugh.
Dismukess going forever wasincomprehensible. When Ive seen it Ill come back to my native land. Here indeed was the pit of theamphitheatre.
Adam awoke now to a different and more intense sense of the fight.
The tops of these cacti wereas pink as wild roses.
The sandy floor was no longermonotonously grey. Thethought you planted in me, pard, somehow makes me yearn.
Another of Dismukess water holes was dry.
Once, years ago, I was lost on the desert, he said, reminiscently.
The robber of slight frame and hard face had walked out from under theshelter. But Imrich, Im not so old, Ill drink life to the very lees. Some prospector was packing water from the creek up the canyonand down into that amphitheatre. They expostulated and pleaded with him to no avail.
Crossbeams wereattached to the upright, and from these crossbeams dragged huge rocksheld by chains. Still higher Adam pulled himself so that he might see under the brushshelter.
Probably atthat instant Adam became fully himself again.
An the half of it will more thanmake up the sum Ive slaved an saved to get. The payingof that debt was all of unity and brotherhood there existed in the world.
Several hugebats with white heads darted in irregular flight over the camp. While waitingfor the wind to begin again, Adam wondered if he was to see Dismukes. Here he crouched against the softclay, breathing hard from his exertions, listening and peering.
Friend Dismukes, I have ears, if my long hair is worrying you, repliedAdam. Several hugebats with white heads darted in irregular flight over the camp.
Adam watched him with grief and yet withgladness, and still with something of awe.
But Imrich, Im not so old, Ill drink life to the very lees.
All was sombre, naked,earthy in this thickening, lowering pall. The payingof that debt was all of unity and brotherhood there existed in the world. Both of the other men charged Adam and thethree met at the opening.
He had glutted it of the riches he craved. The years of lonely hell an never-endin toil are over. Say, pard Wansfell, theres nothin funny about death.
The breast of this giant was covered with grizzledhair.
Then the sweep of the long beam caught the man who was charging Adam.