Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 25 -- Radio Days and Saturday Matinees
The fiendish plan was simple -- to hang him and then to cut the rope. His body would go
hurtling down to the subterranean river below and be carried out to sea.
The hypnotist reversed the lever. The trap-door closed. Locke was dragged beneath the rope
and it was adjusted around his neck.
Even in this awful moment his sole thought was of Eva. Would they throw her, unconscious,
down the same yawning trap?
With a crash the trap was sprung, with the pit yawning beneath it. Struggling, striking,
grappling with his assailants, Locke managed to hurl three of them to their deaths in the
underground river below.
Horror-stricken at the fate of their companions, the other emissaries stepped back, when, to
add to their confusion, Zita, with remarkable strength for so frail a girl, lifted the stand of mirrors
and hurled it among them.
The Perils of Pauline (1933) was a serial remake of the 1914
silent original. In the episode "Dangerous Depths," Pauline and
Warde are seized by Bashan, but manage into a side room and
lock the door. Unable to open the door again, the two try another
way out—only to have the floor collapse beneath them, dumping
the pair into an underground river.
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