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Nan, far ahead, nearly on the level, heard the crash and heard voices crying out. Jamming on her brakes she jumped off; looked back up the precipitous path; saw nothing but its windings. She left her bicycle at the path's side and turned and ran up.
I ban't your faither, I tell 'e, an' I do never mean to see thy faace agin. Go wheer you'm minded; but get 'e gone from here. Tramp the broad road with the crowd the narrer path's closed agin 'e. And this this let it burn same as him what sent it will." He picked up the note nearest to him, crumpled it into a ball and flung it upon the fire.
The ground was soft and mucky. The young checker cautioned the others, "Don't step off the path; some of this stuff's almost like quicksand." "There's a road to the mine," he answered Hanlon's further question, "but it's winding and about five miles, where this path's only a half mile. Ground here won't stand heavy loads." "How big is this planet, anyway?
For ten paces outwards from the tree-trunk there stretched a pitted path. Abiram, as George came, turned at this path's extremity; set his sloe eye upon the dull white patch in Mr. Fletcher's stern; hurled forward up the track; sprang and snapped jaws an inch below the mark as Mr. Fletcher mightily heaved. A lesser dog would have yapped bafflement, fruitlessly scratched upwards from hind legs.
I become, however, a trifle excursive, I think. If I do the blame lies on those partisan writers to whom I have alluded. They have a way of leading their incautious latter-day brethren up the garden. They hint at flesh-eating lilies by the pond at the path's end, and you find nothing more prone to sarcophagy than harmless primulas.
The graveled path ran glimmering beneath the magnolias. Over the wall's blankness the eucalyptus defined its crooked lines against the blue Egyptian sky. No living thing was there ... nothing ... or did that shadow stir? There, just at the path's end. Ryder's lithe strength was swift.
"Th' eend!" he said, "aye, this is th' eend, dear lass, an' th' path's aw shinin' or summat an Why, lass, I can see thee plain, an' th' little chap too!" Another flutter of the breath, one slight movement of the mangled hand, and I bent down closer to the poor fellow closer, because my eyes were so dimmed that I could not see. "Lads," I said aloud a few seconds later, "you can do no more for him.
Naked rock and stone, jewelled with moss and young green, fell straight from the path's edge; and one ragged pine, springing from a group of boulders, was roughly stencilled on blue distances empurpled with shadows of thunderous cloud. A flattened boulder proved irresistible; and Roy sat down, leaning his head against the trunk, sniffing luxuriously whiffs of resin and sun-warmed pine-needles.
Laid upon its side, the mysterious ladder became a distant fence, and little by little a landscape grew into being under her small fingers. Suddenly she caught my arm. "Somebody's coming!" she whispered. I heard footsteps crunch on a path's gravel, then all was silent again. Whoever it was, was coming towards us over the lawn. A clump of rhododendrons hid us from them, and them from us.
It was but a little after this that the path turned aside sharp toward the cliffs, and the seekers were abashed thereof, till Hallblithe running forward beheld a great cavern in the face of the cliff at the path's ending: so he turned and cried on his fellows, and they hastened up, and presently stood before that cavern's mouth with doubt and joy mingled in their minds; for now, mayhappen, they had reached the gate of the Glittering Plain, or mayhappen the gate of death.
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