|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: While sounding it, and bending over the opening as my plumb-line
went down, it seemed to me that the air within was agitated,
as though beaten by huge wings."
"Some bird must have got lost among the lower galleries," replied Jack.
"But that is not all, Jack. This very morning I went back
to the place, and, listening attentively, I thought I could
detect a sound like a sort of groaning."
"Groaning!" cried Jack, "that must be nonsense; it was a current of air--
unless indeed some ghost--"
"I shall know to-morrow what it was," said Harry.
"To-morrow?" answered Jack, looking at his friend.
| 
