Part 65 (1/2)
”You'll stop aside uide”
”Yes, sir”
”You understand, bo's'n, doith the first who tries to escape up the hole here”
”Ay, ay”
”Then, now, forward!” cried Gurr; and, closely followed by Archy and his men, he descended into the old quarry, and then stood listening at the top of the slope, before preparing to advance into the eneht ahead
CHAPTER THIRTY NINE
Archy felt his heart throb as he led the way down the slope, every step of which seemed so fae of howaway the natural shrinking which under other circuht have felt
”Halt!” said the uide, ”Strikes ht, my lad”
”Not much,” replied Archy; ”it's as dark for thee Call on theain”
”Ay, to be sure,” cried the ive in
There was not a sound to suggest that his orders were heard
”Don't knohat to do, o forward, we're leaving the way open for the enemy to attack the watch at the entrance, and we don't want that Are you sure they're here?”
”I feel certain of it,” said Archy in the sa, so as to try to escape, or else to take us at a disadvantage”
”Well,” said Gurr, ”let theht fair, I don't care what they do Here, four of you stop here; dick, take coo forward and turn the enemy, and try to take them in the rear Stand fast if they come at you; no pistols, but use your cutlasses We shall come up to you at the least sound, to help”
Theas if they were oppressed by the darkness, and the ive us the shape of the place like”
Archy obeyed, and explained where the ss, if they had not been moved, the place where he had slept, and the positions of the huge pillars and heaps of broken stones
”And you was shut up here all that tio mad!” said Gurr
”Well, you are a wonder! Tell you what, s are still here, and then I think we'll be off, and cohts There's no one here but ourselves
Place isn't big enough for any one to be hiding without our hearing them?”
”Plenty, Mr Gurr,” said Archy firmly; ”and I am sure they are here; but it is i behind the pillars or piles of stone Have lights got as soon as possible, and then we can come and make them prisoners”
All this was said in a hurried whisper, as the two stood together in front of their men, and in absolute darkness, for they had advanced into the place far enough for the faint light which filtered down from the trap-door to be completely lost
”Yes; but I'd like to be able to tell the skipper that we have got so in the way of a prize for the men Can you lead us to it, my lad?”
”But you couldn't take it away”
”Well, weaboard, as a sample Now then, where will it be froht to it”