Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Jewels of Gwahlur (1935), a Conan tale,
Chapter 20 -- More Boys Club Serials
I've always known there was a subterranean river flowing away from the lake where the people
of the Puntish highlands throw their dead. That river runs under this palace. They have
ladders hung over the water where they can hang and fish for the corpses that come floating
through.
Not a pleasant scene, but Boys Clubs can handle it.
Frank Gee Patchin'
We've Frank Gee Patchin's 12-volume Pony Rider Boys series. In The Pony Rider Boys in the
Ozarks, or The Secret of Ruby Mountain (1924), the lads ride not their ponies, but a rail car, into
a mine.
"Not necessary," said Mr. Phipps. "It is seldom that anyone
has occasion to go through this tunnel -- practically never
unless something happens to a car in here. There are lights
along that may be turned on if necessary, but it would be a
needless expense to keep them going all the time."
"What's that loud noise?" asked Tad.
His ears had caught a booming roar that was a new note in
the terrifying sounds of the underworld through which they
were traveling.
The boys started uneasily.
"It's water," shouted the guide. "A cataract in an underground
water course. These courses have cut channels all through
the limestone rocks in the Ozark Uplift."
This somewhat calmed the nerves of the lads, though not
wholly so. Faster and faster rolled the car and louder and
louder grew the roar of the cataract.
What, we wonder, awaits the Pony Rider Boys within Ruby Mountain?
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