"Can't say whether they were aircraft or autos, of course," he
added, "but those things were certainly machines." Later, Rolla paid
more attention to them, and the doctor positively identified them as
former motor-cars.
The sun had gone down. It was still quite light, of course; darkness
would not come for a couple of hours. Rolla munched on what food she
had, and pressed on through the ruins. She saw skeletons and rusted
engines everywhere, and once passed a rounded heap of rust which
looked like nothing so much as a large cannon shell. Had the place
been the scene of a battle?
Just when she had got rather accustomed to the place and was feeling
more or less at her ease, she stopped short. At the same time the
doctor himself fairly jumped in his chair. Somewhere, right near at
hand, on one of the larger structures, a bell began to ring!
It clanged loudly and confidently, giving out perhaps thirty strokes
before it stopped. The stillness which followed was pretty painful.
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