"I never saw anything like it before--did you?
It sprung up all at once, and the first I knew it was sweeping along." "Don't stand here!" Jack panted hoarsely.

"Good Lord, girl! You--" "Why, you've been running!" she cried, in a surprised tone.

"Were you down there in it?
I thought you had to stay up on top." She had to raise her voice to make him hear her.
Her absolute ignorance of the danger exasperated him.

He took her by the arm and swung her up the trail.

"We've got to beat it!" he yelled in her ear.