By night he would go alone to the treasurevault, reconnoitering, for he had determined that caution should mark his every move upon this expedition.

At the door of hisvault he turned and pressed my hand.

A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangularvault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device.

When the ash was cut and fashioned into the shape of a lever, the three men penetrated into thevault.

Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tallvault unfold -- Somevault that oft hath flung its black And winged pannels fluttering back, Triumphant, o'er the crested palls, Of her grand family funerals -- Some sepulchre, remote, alone, Against whose portal she hath thrown, In childhood, many an idle stone -- Some tomb fromout whose sounding door She ne'er shall force an echo more, Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!

Each adult Martian female brings forth about thirteen eggs each year, and those which meet the size, weight, and specific gravity tests are hidden in the recesses of some subterraneanvault where the temperature is too low for incubation.

The first entrance to the cavern was by a moderate descent, above which distorted rocks formed a weird arcade; the interior, very uneven and dangerous from the inequalities of thevault, was subdivided into several compartments, which communicated with each other by means of rough and jagged steps, fixed right and left, in uncouth natural pillars.

Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to thevault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris.

Then turning to the fire James seized the tongs, "and under his feet he mightily brast up a blank of the chamber,"* and leaping down into thevault beneath he let the plank fall again into its place.

Among the groups which flocked towards the familyvault, Chateau-Renaud recognized Morrel, who had come alone in a cabriolet, and walked silently along the path bordered with yew-trees.

To the conglomerate and trachyte succeeded black basalt, the first dispread in layers full of bubbles, the latter forming regular prisms, placed like a colonnade supporting the spring of the immensevault, an admirable specimen of natural architecture.

The scene was a plain, bare, monotonousvault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.