Part 13 (1/2)

He looked round for the threatening-looking black rocks which had seeht the uncouth led hair which see waters But, in place of these, there was the glorious sunshi+ne, brightening the grey granite, and old as it swayed here and there in the crystal-pure water

”Why, you look ten pounds better than you did yesterday!” cried Kenneth; and then, raising his voice, ”Scood, ho! Scood, hoy!” he shouted

”Ahoy--ay!” caone down,” cried Kenneth ”Coly

”Going? Down to our bathing-place; and, look here, as you are not used to it, don't try to go out, for the tide runs pretty strong along here

Scood and I can s, and where the eddies are, so as to get back Here we are”

He had led his coe of the rock, where it descended perpendicularly to the sea, and apparently there was no farther progress to be erous did it seem, that, as Kenneth quickly lowered himself over the precipice, Max, by an involuntary movement, started forward and ?” cried Kenneth ”It's all right Now then, I'm here Lower yourself over Lay hold of that bit of stone I'll guide your feet There's plenty of roo breath, and his first thought was to run back to the house

”Make haste!” cried Kenneth from somewhere below; and Max went down on his hands and knees to creep to the edge and look over, and see that the rock projected over a broad shelf, upon which the young Scot was standing looking up

”Oh, I say, you are a rus first, same as I did; not your head”

”But is it safe--for me?”

”Safe? Why, of course, unless you can pull the rock down on top of you

Co”

”I will do it! I will do it!” hastly pale, and with a wild look in his eyes Then, turning, and lowering his legs over the edge, he clung spasmodically to a projection which offered its help

”That's the way I've got you Let go”

For a few o He felt that if he did he should fall headlong seventy or eighty feet into the rock-strewn sea; but, as he hesitated, Kenneth gave hiony of horror, he fell full twenty inches--on his feet, and found hi above his head and the glittering sea below

”You'll corasshopper next ti toas you don't slip

I'll show you”

He began to descend from shelf to shelf, where the rock had been blasted away so as to forh steps ofin every lirandfather had this done so that he could reach the cavern Before that it was all like a wall here, and nobody could get up and down

Why, you can climb as well as I can, only you pretend that you can't”

Max said nothing, but kept on cautiously descending till he stood upon a broad patch of barnacle-crusted rock, beside what looked like a great rough Gothic archway, forside which there was a rugged continuation of the great stone upon which the lads stood

”There, isn't this so like a bath?” cried Kenneth ”It's splendid, only you can't bathe when there's any sea”

”Why?” asked Max, so as to gain time