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She made rather sad work of the effort, for a shag-bark hickory is not the easiest tree in the world to climb, and after she had torn her skirt in two places and mended it with safety pins, she gave up the attempt. "Let's walk further," she suggested. "We'll mark our trail as we go like the Indians."

Farewell; climb the wall at the back of the garden, and take refuge in the next house. I will still watch over you." Landon obeyed, and made his escape from the governor's garden just as Don Rodrigo was entering his court yard.

The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees.

It might be the next time there'll be a convenient island handy, though I hope there'll come no next time." He even found a way to climb on to the berg itself, though in most places the field ice was chopped into small bits by some action on the part of the vast bulk, perhaps during a high wind and a heavy sea.

Some sense of shame seemed to overpower Hervey as he thought that he might have shot the girl, and he replaced the revolver in his pocket with a shrug. "I climb down and apologize," he said to Don Pedro, who bowed gravely. "Hang you, sir; you might have shot my daughter," cried Braddock. "The drawing-room, where she is sitting, is right overhead, and-"

Of course all these results had not been the work of an hour. As he entered, he drew a long breath, and said, "Ah! You live pretty high up, my dear Daniel." Poor fellow! He forgot that he was playing the young man. But he recalled himself at once, and added, full of vivacity, "Not that I complain of it; oh, no! A few stories to climb what is that to me?"

Thus we scrambled along for another hour, at the expiration of which we could only see a blank wall of mountain before us, up which it would have been both impossible and useless to climb.

Down, down, we went it seemed that we should never be able to climb the opposite height. We were all looking out for the strangers, expecting to settle the disputed point. "Where are they?" burst from the lips of all of us. "Where, where?" We looked, we rubbed our eyes no sail was in sight. "I knew it would be so," said Stubbs, in a tone in which I perceived a thrill of horror.

Even at the end he would say nothing but the words, "Strange, strange; there must be a reason that you have not guessed." "But we will get the ihai, will we not, Master? Together, when you are strong, we will climb the long road to the temple?" she questioned tremulously. "Indeed we shall," said Tatsu, with his heartrending smile; "for at best, the thoughts of Kano Indara cannot be our thoughts.

It is a long hard climb out of the Salween valley. We left on March 24 and all day crawled up the steep sides on a trail which doubled back and forth upon itself like an endless letter S. From our camp at night the river was just visible as a thin green line several thousand feet below, and for the first time in days, we needed a charcoal fire in our tents.