. Harper's weekly. regretted that if wasi high. We went straight io the our roof, [Mat-mix, in hi- walks, having. ]y, laming j open the. Mi-I Inlwent- returned Delacroix, rnergotit abs tin- little chasm of (iivi>ion tc Now, will you go first? ?—open doors; stumbles, nnd i last flight of Btaira—a most viilainolower door was bolted, but, being onproved no such mighty matter to 0]there was a cold, damp rush of nir, Myle, and nvinv! Scarce any ? w. nnd walking lcir-un-lv through tlif darketicc-r-;, hv morning light imv well o Delacroix had n pocket-compass, and by it we struck a north-east


. Harper's weekly. regretted that if wasi high. We went straight io the our roof, [Mat-mix, in hi- walks, having. ]y, laming j open the. Mi-I Inlwent- returned Delacroix, rnergotit abs tin- little chasm of (iivi>ion tc Now, will you go first? ?—open doors; stumbles, nnd i last flight of Btaira—a most viilainolower door was bolted, but, being onproved no such mighty matter to 0]there was a cold, damp rush of nir, Myle, and nvinv! Scarce any ? w. nnd walking lcir-un-lv through tlif darketicc-r-;, hv morning light imv well o Delacroix had n pocket-compass, and by it we struck a north-easterly course, going on bravely till presently wocame plump on a fort—peril number two. Down!?whispered Delacroix, chopping on hands and kneesin the grass. I followed his examplo in all haste,and so we wormed our way some hundred yardsonward. Suddenly Delacroix clutched my was vibrating in the air—a dull, heavy,regular sound, caught all the more readily from ournearness to the ground, and with it a curious, fainttinkle, growing nearer, sounding out loudly nowon the raw air. Both exc


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