We shan't be wanted here, since if the Captain can't touch off that mine, no one can, with the Doctor to help him just in case anything goes wrong, and Japhet guarding the line.

I daresay there's nothing in this yarn, but who knows?
There might be, and then we should blame ourselves.

What do you say, Professor ?" "I?
Oh, I'll do anything you wish, though I should rather have liked to climb the cliff and watch what happens." "You'd see nothing, Higgs," interrupted Oliver, "except perhaps the reflection of a flash in the sky; so, if you don't mind, I wish you would go with the Sergeant.

Somehow, although I am quite certain that we ought not to alarm Maqueda, I am not easy about her, and if you two fellows were there, I should know she was all right, and it would be a weight off my mind." "That settles it," said Higgs; "we'll be off presently.

Look here, give us that portable telephone, which is of no use anywhere else now.