Part 17 (1/2)
Half-way up they saw a couple of those fast disappearing birds, the red-legged choughs, and startled a few jackdahich went off shouting at the survey of the cove fro fresh to see; all beneath theain and again as they continued their course along the ridge their patience and toil were not rewarded, for, save that they were from different standpoints, the views they obtained of the rocks and rushi+ng waters were the sa for a considerable distance, and then as if moved by the same spirit they stopped and looked at each other
”I say,” said Mike, ”it don't seeiven in a very decisive tone ”The only way to see that place down below is to get there in a boat”
”And old Joe Daygo says it's not right to go, and we should never get back; so we shall never see it”
”I don't believe that,” said Vince shortly
”Well, I don't want to, but it seeht, and the more one looks the more one believes in him”
”I don't,” said Vince ”The h good search, and I can't help thinking he knohy”
”Shall we try hiazed down once ranite that the storms of centuries had carved till they seeht offer him some money”
”I don't believe he'd like it, and you know Jeh he always dressed so shabbily and never spent anything, he alell off”
”Well, then, what are we to do? I want to see the place worse than ever It looks so teht find”
”I don't think we should find anything about it but that it would be a good place for fishi+ng It oes there Why, Ladle, all the holes aersas serpents”
Mike nodded
”But how are we to get there to fish for them?”
”Don't know, unless we try it ourselves with a boat”
”Would you risk it?”
Vince did not answer for a fewdown and searchingly exah which the tide poured
”I'in to think I would That narrow passage would look wider when you were right in it, and the way to do it would be to coh,--there wouldn't be soabout of the water then; and the way to get out again would be at high water too”
”But that would ain--hours and hours”
”Yes,” said Vince, ”that would be the way; but it would want ever soabout first”
”Yes,” replied Mike; ”it would want ever so o back?”
”May as well,” said Vince; and he stepped down, after a farewell look down at the sheltered cove, fully realising the fact that any one passing it a short distance from the shore would take the barrier of rocks which shut it in for the continuation of the cliffs on either side; and as the place had a terrible reputation for dangerous reefs and currents, in addition to the superstitious inventions of the people of the Crag, it seehly probable that it had never been approached unless by the unfortunate crew of some doomed vessel which had been battered to pieces and sunk unseen and unheard
”Shall I go first?” said Vince