Part 13 (1/2)
”I say!” he cried, ”father said it was a shaive us a holiday”
”Eh? What's that?” cried the Doctor ”Here, I' to pay half that tutor's expenses if this sort of idleness is to be encouraged”
Mike looked aghast
”It's all right,” said Vince merrily; ”father doesn't
”No: does he, mother?”
Mrs Burnet set into any mischief”
”No, father,” said Vince, and the next minute they were outside
”Scraw?” said Vincent; and his coed his opinion the next ot the hammer and bar ready, and a small rope; but we must have yours”
”Yes, of course”
”Well, run back and get it, and ht it,” said Mike: ”tucked it under a furze bush out on the coerness, and the pair were about to start when they saw old Daygo in the distance, and they turned back, went into the house, and waited till he had gone by
Giving the fisherht, they sallied forth, and went to where the coil of rope was hidden--a thin, strong line that would have borne a couple of ht out, and a glance round taken to make sure they were not watched, Mike cried--
”But what about the hammer and bar?”
Vince opened his jersey to show the head of the haly tucked in the waistband of his trousers
”Well done! that's capital!” cried Mike And the two lads went off in the direction of the Scraw, but in a zigzag fashi+on, as if their intentions were entirely different; and this at Vince's wish, for he had a strong i an eye upon their hed at the idea
”I don't feel nervous about it now, do you?” said Vince, as soon as they ell under cover of the rugged ground
”No; but I don't like to think about that ugly slip you had,” said Mike thoughtfully
”I didn't have an ugly slip: you knocked me over”
”Oh, well, I couldn't help it, could I? and I did hold on till you got out of it”
”Never oing to do There'll be no danger so long as we are careful--and I mean to be, very, and so I tell you Wonder whether we shall see our black friend? I say, didn't it seem as if it was on the look-out for us to have a bad accident?”
”No: see its nest”
They chatted away h till they had nearly reached the chaos of tuht sunshi+ne and blue sky overhead, the wildness of the place once more impressed them unpleasantly, and, instead of the cheery conversation and banter in which they had indulged, they beca at intervals, and then in quite a low tone
The bottoh slope was reached, and they paused to consider their plans They had come out some fifty yards froe, for it was ar-loaf upon which the raven had perched But the sloping wall of granite where they were presented just about the saled up before, and there was no reason for round, cue blocks that led in the hollows betith brambles; so they deteran at once, each selecting his own route, with the understanding that a pyrahty or ninety feet above their heads should be the -place