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Scanning the wall closely, it seemed to her rough and jagged enough for her to do so with comparative safety. Just as she reached this decision, she heard a faint holloo from the same direction in which José had come and, turning her head quickly, she saw Mrs. Nitschkan hastening over the hill toward her. "Gosh a'mighty!" exclaimed the gypsy, when she had come within speaking distance.
Out went the candles the curtains flapped high in air, and lashed the ceiling the door banged with a hideous crash papers, and who knows what beside, went spinning, hurry-scurry round the room; and Toole's wig was very near taking wing from his head. 'Hey hey hey! holloo! cried the doctor, out of breath, and with his artificial ringlets frisking about his chops and eyes.
At this particular moment a shrill scream is heard at the far end of a long shaw, and every man pushes on to the best of his endeavour. "Holloo o-o-u, h'loo o-o-u, h'loo o-o-u, gone away! gone away! forward! forrard! hark back! hark forrard! hark forrard! hark back!" resounds from every mouth.
We had not gone fifty yards before we came up with the boatswain, with four of our men at his heels, all of them covered with blood and dust, and in search of more people to satiate their vengeance. As soon as we saw them, we called out, and made them understand who we were; upon which they came up to us, setting up a holloo of triumph, in token that more help was come.
Gammon, holding tight to his companion's arm, endeavoured to pilot him in a direction where the crowd was thinnest, still moving westward; but Lord Polperro caught the contagion of the tumult and began pressing vehemently into the surging mass. "This does me good, Gammon. It's a long time since I've mixed with people. I always enjoyed a crowd. Holloo o o!"
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