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- The water came out of the cellar with us and spread over the floor of the room. If, this went on, the whole house on the lake would be swamped. The floor of the torture-chamber had itself become a regular little lake, in which our feet splashed. Surely there was water enough now! Erik must turn off the tap!
- “Erik! Erik! That is water enough for the gunpowder! Turn off the tap! Turn off the scorpion!”
- But Erik did not reply. We heard nothing but the water rising: it was half-way to our waists!
- ...
- By this time, we had lost our foothold and were spinning round in the water, carried away by an irresistible whirl, for the water turned with us and dashed us against the dark mirror, which thrust us back again; and our throats, raised above the whirlpool, roared aloud.
- -Chapter XXV
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