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Waiting for the next spell of darkness I walked swiftly up to the protecting wall of the mausoleum, climbed over, and with the torch's aid found a yew branch on which I could sit and observe whenever it was moonlight the little dell that ran down to the burn wherein the shepherd and dog had been drowned. Silence reigned supreme.
The rope having been properly fastened and warded off the side by an ingenious arrangement of several large rocks, Strong began his descent. In his left hand he carried a flaming torch and Donald leaned over the edge, looking down, with rifle sighted, to fire upon any reptile which might be brought to light by the torch's ruddy glare.
After various labours, however, we suddenly entered a great cavern, quite dry. From its roof hung great stalactites that glittered and sparkled in the torch's uncertain light, while around the rough walls of this natural chamber were heaped in profusion great heavy chests of iron and adamant.
Sir Francis standing up over him, with the torch in his own hand, now turned the light on to his face. When I saw what it revealed I nearly let go our prisoner's legs through sheer bewilderment. For there in the torch's bright circle lay the poor idiot Jock, cursing us in fluent German. "Does any one know him?" demanded my uncle. "It's the Scollays' idiot son!" I gasped.
Yes! even I was in Arcadia born, And, in mine infant ears, A vow of rapture was by Nature sworn; Yes! even I was in Arcadia born, And yet my short spring gave me only tears! Once blooms, and only once, life's youthful May; For me its bloom hath gone. The silent God O brethren, weep to-day The silent God hath quenched my torch's ray, And the vain dream hath flown.
He could not make out what manner of creature it was which gripped the satchel's handle and whose eyes pulsed back greenish flares into the torch's dim glow. But it was an animal of some kind; distorted and formless in the wavering finger of blunted light; but still an animal. Not a ghost. And fear departed. The intruder feared nothing mortal.
Instead of waiting for King to catch up, Ismail began to lead the way at great speed along a path that descended gradually until it curved round the end of the chasm and plunged into a tunnel where the darkness grew opaque. In the tunnel the torch's smoke cast weird shadows on walls and roof, and the fitful light only confused, so that Ismail slowed down and let him come up close.
The abbot on the threshold stood, And in his hands the holy rood; Back on his shoulders flowed his hood, The torch's glaring ray Showed, in its red and flashing light, His withered cheek and amice white, His blue eye glistening cold and bright, His tresses scant and gray. "Fair lords," he said, "our lady's love, And peace be with you from above, And benedicite!
Slinging my harness into a long single strap, I lowered Tars Tarkas to the courtyard beneath, and an instant later dropped to his side. We had spoken scarcely a dozen words since I had felled Tan Gama at the cell door and seen in the torch's light the expression of utter bewilderment upon the great Thark's face.
Let the light shine with the intensity of three radium units for fifty tals" ah, there was the first line of characters upon the torch's metal case 3 50 T; "and for one xat let it shine with the intensity of one radium unit" there was the second line; "and then for twenty-five tals with nine units." The formula was complete; but what did it mean?
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