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Lynton pulled the line slowly in, whilst all the others watched with eager expectation for the first appearance of his captive. "It must be a monster," said Brace hoarsely. "Be careful now, Lynton. It would be horrible if the line were to break, and we were to lose him after all our efforts." "Monster? I believe he's as long as the boat; but he's pumped out now.
"Look at that," and he drew his master's attention to a shaft which just at that moment rose from out of the densest part of the tree, described an arch, and fell upon the deck. "I can't see him," cried Lynton, who was crouching in the shelter of the bulwark; "but I fancy I can make out where he is."
"There's time to do a bit more to-day," said Lynton, who was eager to go on exploring, and in obedience to an order the men rowed gently on past the front of the temple, till about a quarter of a mile farther on a similar landing to that which they had first approached was reached, and the party eagerly ascended the rough steps to a flat wharf or terrace like the other where the smouldering fires were found, ascended by another L-shaped passage to the next terrace, to find more and more rooms or cells, and then hurried on back till they came face to face with the blank rock which formed the other end of the temple.
"Well, I don't want you interfering and giving orders to the men," answered the mate. "Suppose we take our orders from Mr Brace here." Briscoe turned to Brace. "What do you say, sir do you think my advice is good?" "Yes, Lynton, it is good," said Brace firmly. "Do as Mr Briscoe says."
Up on the crags, with houses nestling here in nooks and perched there upon cliffs, Lynton mounts by zigzag paths, until, on a rocky terrace above, it gets room to spread into a straggling street. The two streams called the East and West Lyn unite here before seeking the sea, and join their currents at the edge of the town.
I first remember the future Bishop of London when I was fifteen, and he was reading history with my father on a Devonshire reading-party. The tall, slight figure in blue serge, the red-gold hair, the spectacles, the keen features and quiet, commanding eye I see them first against a background of rocks on the Lynton shore.
It was only too plain to him that this was the case, for he could mark their position by fixing his eyes upon a rock on the farther shore and see that they were first abreast of it and soon after leaving it behind them. "We've got our work cut out here, Mr Lynton," said the American sternly. "I should change course again, sir, and make a tack in the other direction."
"Shall we land and go to their help?" said Brace. "I don't think we need," said Sir Humphrey. "They seem to be holding their own in running, and I suppose now, captain, you'll have no objection to them on board?" "Not a doubt of it, sir," said the captain drily. "Here, Lynton, haul that boat alongside. We shall want them now, Mr Brace." "Of course," replied the young adventurer.
"Hah!" cried the captain breathlessly, "I've 'most lost my wind. Now, gentlemen, I call that a neat job. Will you do the crowing, Mr Brace?" "I don't think there's any need, captain," said Brace, who was examining one hand. "Not a bit, my lad. Hullo ... hurt?" "Only knocked the skin off my knuckles. Your men have such hard heads." "Yes, but we've softened some of 'em," said Lynton.
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