"Quick is wounded.

Now Maqueda is talking to you.

She says, 'Oliver, come! Joshua's men assail me.
Oliver, come!'" Then followed a great sound of shouting answered by more shots, and just as Orme snatched the receiver from my hand the wire went dead.

In vain he called down it in an agonized voice.

As well might he have addressed the planet Saturn.
"The wire's cut," he exclaimed, dashing down the receiver and seizing the lantern which Japhet had just succeeded in re-lighting; "come on, there's murder being done," and he sprang to the doorway, only to stagger back again from the great stone with which it was blocked.
"Good God!" he screamed, "we're shut in.