Their lamps danced at their wrists in the deathly silence which had fallen; they rushed in single file along the passages with bent backs, as though they were galloping on all fours; and without slowing this gallop they asked each other questions and threw brief replies. Where was it, then? In the cuttings, perhaps.
Les lampes dansaient a leurs poings, dans le silence de mort qui s'était fait; ils couraient a la file le long des voies, l'échine pliée, comme s'ils eussent galopé a quatre pattes; et, sans ralentir ce galop, ils s'interrogeaient, jetaient des réponses breves: ou donc? dans les tailles peut-etre? non, ça venait du bas! au roulage plutôt!