One of the ship's officers had just entered the passageway, in time to see what was going on.

Almost ashamed to make the search, now convinced it was all an hallucination of the senses, he crossed the narrow passageway and opened the door.

"But you can't stop up the passageway," I said.

"Well," said Harris, "one man, with a couple of revolvers, should be able to guard this passageway for an hour without trouble.

Just how or when it had happened none of them could tell, but the soft drooping bedcovers had suddenly, mysteriously risen and spread into firm white walls behind and on either side, leaving only a narrow passageway open in front.

The following evening we were stopped by a thicket of quaking ash, through which it required a full day's hard work to open a passageway.

" He had darted towards the bottom of the canvas strip siding the passageway.

After wandering through the windings of the Grecian Archipelago, they passed the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, stirring the two narrow passageways with the violence of their invisible gallopade and making a turn at the bowl of the Black Sea, swimming back, decimated but impetuous, to the depths of the Mediterranean.

The fire will start in this big chamber andI want to cut it off by blocking the passageway.

"Now," said M. Paul, surveying the blocked passageway, "that is the best we can dowith wood.

By this time Mr. Montague had gotten upstairs; but he found the passageway to his wife's room so full of flames and smoke, that, though he tried again and again to force his way through, he could not.

The light of daybreak, blue and cold as the reflection of steel, threw into relief the two masses of armed men who formed a narrow passageway.

Trying to bring order out of chaos, I was rushing up and down the narrow aisle between the rows of rapidly filling beds, and, after brushing several times against a pair of the largest and muddiest boots I ever saw, I paused at last to inquire why they were impeding the passageway.