In fact, hill and valley alike were laid out with
handsome residences, beautifully kept grounds, vast parks and
extensive greens, suggesting golf. That was all.
Then she noticed something that made her marvel. The sun, which had
stood directly overhead when they left the house, within less than
three hours began to descend with increasing rapidity; so that in
half the length of an ordinary afternoon it had approached to within
an hour of setting. Its motion was so rapid that it could almost be
seen.
Soon Billie concluded that the two fliers were bound for the bottom
of some unusually wide and exceptionally deep canon. She tried to
remember what she had read of the earth's greatest chasms; was it
possible for the sun to disappear in mid-afternoon in such? And yet
the flight went on and on, until Billie began to wonder if a chasm
could be a hundred miles deep.
Soon she could dimly discern the dark mass of the opposite side. The
fliers were steadily approaching this, and all the time going deeper
and deeper.
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