Part 44 (1/2)
”Eh? Where?” said Daygo quickly
”Right away, lass, altered the focus again, and took a long, searching look
”Bah!” he exclailass with a smart crack ”I say, lookye here”
He led the way to the door, grinning tre over the fireplace, was the piece of well-tarred rope, hanging by a loopline
”Ready anted--eh?”
The boys laughed and went off soon after towards hos worse off,” said Mike, when they parted for the night; ”but I'ot out of all that so easily--I say, Cinder!”
”Well?”
”It would have been rather aard if he'd taken it the other way and been in a rage”
”Very,” said Vince, before whose eyes the two feet of rope seeloom
”And it would have been all your fault”
”Yes,” said Vince shortly ”Good-night: I want to get home”
They parted, and as he walked back Vince could not help thinking a good deal about the previous afternoon's experience, and he shook his headto think of the cavern
CHAPTER TWENTY
FRESH PULLS FROM THE MAGNET
A week elapsed; the weather had been storht the sea into a furious state,the churned-up foay balls of snow
And the boys were kept in by the gale?
Is it likely? The e Atlantic waves thundered against the cliffs and sent the spray flying up in showers, thethe dier
But it was rare for a shi+p to be seen anywhere near Cor when a sou'-wester blew Its rocks and fierce currents were too well known to the hardy ht his way outward into deep water if he could not reach a port, sooner than be anywhere near that dangerous rock-strewn shore
Vince and Mike had long known that when the as at its highest, and it was hard work to stand against it, there was little danger in being near the edge of some perpendicular precipice, and that there, with the rock-face fully exposed to the gale, and the huge waves rushi+ng in to leap against the towering masses with a noise like thunder, they could sit down in cos akin to awe at the tumult below
Why? For the sih, flat surface, the swift current of air o so it, neither can it dive into the sea
It can only go upward, and sweeps several feet beyond the edge of the cliff before it curves over and continues its furious journey over the land, leaving at the brink a spot that is undisturbed
These places were favoured always by the boys, ould generally be the only living creatures visible, the birds having at the first breaking out of the storm hastened to shelter themselves on the other side of the island