Part 60 (1/2)
”But it really is aard, Mr Raystoke, isn't it?”
”Horribly, sir Got anything to eat?”
”To eat? No, my lad But--tut--tut--tut! I can't hear them anywhere”
”Nor I, sir”
”Well, we must not stand here But what did you say?--I did not see what it was; they went off after a boy?”
The er, and entered into the trouble warmly
”Yes,” he said; ”and it was a plan That boy is as cunning as can be
We must have been close up to the way into the cave when he started out and led us all away froed about, knowing the place by heart, and kept hiding and running off again, to get us right away from the entrance”
”That's it--that's it, Mr Raystoke Don't try any ht in the bull's eye”
”You think so?”
”No, sir; I' fox Now as soon as we've taken hih in such a way that the young scaet four dozen on the bare back”
”Hadn't we better catch hiht, Mr Raystoke Coether We shall catch hiht first Now then, sir, let's listen”
They listened, but there was not a sound
”'Pon my word! This is a pretty state of affairs!” cried the ht up to the top of this place and hail”
”That's good advice, Mr Raystoke, sir: so come on”
They started at once, and at the end of tenround they could only dimly see other hills siular earth-waves of the great convulsion which had thrown the strata of the Freestone Shore into a state of chaos,--but nothing more
”I'll hail,” said Archy; and he shouted, but there was no reply
”The scoundrels!” cried the ether in soet away fro at?”
”There are no public-houses out in this wild place, Mr Gurr”
”Eh? Well, no, I suppose not I'll hail Ahoy?”
A faint echo in reply That was all