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And we did so, after a good meal, as well as we could, while the wains yet brought stones, and arrows and darts in sheaves to the bridge. But forward in our ships the men were coiling the great cables that should, we hoped, bring the bridge and stones alike down harmlessly to us.
After this had gone on for some time, however, Callia suddenly gave a shriek. 'What is the matter? asked Calladon. 'The snake! the snake! cried Callia. 'It is winding itself all round me! 'And round me too! screamed Calladon. 'Oh, what shall we do? In fact, the mud with which they had covered themselves had become alive, and was coiling itself tightly about them in the form of serpents.
I was sweating cold, but I kept my eyes glued to them glasses like a man in a nightmare. "When he makes sure the fellow's dead, he rides alongside and flips off the rope, with the buckskin snorting and edging off at the blood-smell, I reckon. While he's coiling his rope, calm as if he'd just merely roped a yearling, the buckskin gets his head, plants it and turns on the fireworks.
Bruce, I'll bet we've struck a regular Garden of Eden!" "Looks it," vouchsafed Bruce, coiling up his long legs to get a better rest for his telescope. "If this ain't a sheep an' bear country, I've made the worst guess I ever made in my life." For five minutes they looked, without a word passing between them. Behind them their horses were nibbling hungrily in the thick, rich grass.
He stood at last within the broad shadow of the sanctuary, while far above him rose the tall spire, with the sunbeams coiling like a heaven-halo around it, pointing to the golden battlements of the far-off city, within whose blessed precincts nothing "which defileth shall ever enter."
I turned to congratulate her and at the same instant Worth cried, "What's the matter, Bobs?" for the girl was sitting, staring dejectedly, her chin cupped in her palms, her lips quivering. Nonplussed, I stooped over the suitcase and rope, coiling up the one, putting it in the other this first bit of tangible, palpable evidence we'd lighted on. "Let's get out of this," I said quickly.
It is in a grove close to the public highway, but upon a low hill. Entering the grove I find myself in a sort of miniature glen surrounded on three sides by very low cliffs, above which enormous pines are growing, incalculably old. Their vast coiling roots have forced their way through the face of the cliffs, splitting rocks; and their mingling crests make a green twilight in the hollow.
I'll take in the slack. You just keep a-coming. That's it. Easy. Easy." Smoke was still a dozen feet away when the final collapse of the bridge began. Without noise, but in a jerky way, it crumbled to an increasing tilt. "Quick!" Carson called, coiling in hand-over-hand on the slack of the rope which Smoke's rush gave him.
He seized the prickly branches coiling about and above him; he gasped in prayerful pleading, the home teaching still strong in him; but there was no answer, save the crooning night-birds and the croaking frogs. Slimy things touched his torn flesh; whirring birds shot past him, disturbed in their night perches.
When he lifted his head Dougal and the others had joined him, and the whole company of the Die-Hards was assembled on a patch of grass which was concealed from the landward view by a thicket of hazels. Another, whom he recognized as Heritage, was coiling up the rope. "We'd better get all the stuff into the old Tower for the present," Heritage was saying.
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