Part 39 (2/2)

Archy started guiltily, and looked at theht to see that they were covered with blood, fro with his knife against the stones

”Tu for an answer ”Well, 'tis dark 'o anywhere now in the dark Seem to feel like when they are near Neveryou one o' ot the basket this time

I say?”

”Well?”

The lad was ten yards away now, holding the lanthorn above his head

”You lost a chance”

”What do you ht have given me a topper with a stone, and run away; too late now”

He ran off laughing, and holding the lanthorn do to make sure of his way

But Archy did not start up in pursuit He saw a better way out now, and waiting till he felt convinced that the boy must be well on his way home, he jumped up, felt his way to the crevice, and was soon after hard at work picking the rew faint and weary, it seeress, but the little heap ofheart he toiled away

It seeed wall, draw it out, and then remove the other, but in practice it appeared al back into the quarry to partake of the food that was absolutely necessary, Archy returned to his task, and after working away again for about half an hour he fell fast asleep

How long he slept he did not know, but he started awake again to find that it was quite dark, and he kept on like one in a drearess was getting very slo, for he had cleared away thethe stone and getting his fingers well in the joint, he gave it a vigorous shove, and then uttered a shout of triuiving a vigorous shove, the stone, which was about twenty inches long, was drawn out, and beca its fellows

This was comparatively easy now, and in the course of the next two days the prisoner had loosened and drawn out stones till he had h piece of wall six feet thick, and had enlarged the hole so that there was roo he had made and look out

Here cah did not face out to sea, but was one side of a chasazed at the opposite side

Soon after he learned that this had not been the place where the stones were carried out for landing in boats, but the hole through which all the refuse was discharged, to fall in a cru heap a tremendous distance below, to be washed away by the waves which curved over and over against the foot and rolled up into the chas the broken pieces anddown the face of the cliff into the sea, till there was nothing to hinder his crawling out at any ti to the top of the cliff or down below to the shore

He decided for the forest peril, and he spent the next few hours after cleansing himself as much as possible, so as not to excite the attention of his young gaoler, and in his efforts to do this he made use of a piece of sailcloth, and an end of a coil of rope which lay with so tackle hard by where he slept

The day had come at last when the as open, and he had but to creep out into the fresh bright sunshi+ne and run for his liberty

He could hardly refrain fro and arduous labour, which had taken the skin froers and left his whole hands so tender that he hardly dared to touch anything, had taught him some wisdom, especially not to throay the opportunity for which he had worked so hard

And now he sat there in the darkness, wafting, so exultant that his seat ht have been a throne, instead of a worn-out sail stretched over a ed the knees upon which his chin rested, and gazed straight before hilow of Ralorious sky, the blue sea all a-ripple; the shi+ without effort, now high up, non, their breasts of purest white, their backs of delicate grey, and their wondering eyes gazing at the rough-looking fisher-lad who crept out of a hole in the face of the cliff, made his way frorass at the top, where he lay down to wait till night for fear of being seen and dragged back

The black darkness of the great cavern quarry was all alight noith the pictures his hed aloud as he thought of Ra his prisoner flown

It was hard work to keep fro at once, but the midshi+pman felt that if he did, his escape would be discovered at any moment, and if it were, it was only a question of ti after him, and he would be hunted down to a lot ten ti failure to contemplate, and form his mental food