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Only one room high they were, and not placed opposite each other, but in and out as skittles are; only that the first of all, which proved to be the captain's, was a sort of double house, or rather two houses joined together by a plank-bridge, over the river. Fourteen cots my mother counted, all very much of a pattern, and nothing to choose between them, unless it were the captain's.
After galloping upon this savannah we plunged into the river, and, after our horses had broken through a plank-bridge at the great risk of their legs, we rode for many miles through bush and clearing, down sandy tracks and scratching thickets, to the pebbly beach of Lake Ontario. The contrast between the horses and their equipments, and the country we rode through, was somewhat singular.
There was but one individual in it and he he was rowing by instinct, as the birds fly, for his gaze was glued to a newspaper sheet, the sun's own evening edition, gorgeously printed by the painted rays in every hue of the spectrum. He was heading straight straight for the floating wharf with its plank-bridge running out ashore. Jack at a Pinch again! "Do do you know who he is?"
Come, Tom, the keg's too heavy for the boy. I must fetch it myself, and you must guard the bridge while I do it." He went out quickly as he spoke, followed by Tom and Tolly. It was a bright moonlight night, and the forks of the little stream glittered like two lines of silver, at the bottom of their rugged bed on either side of the hut. The plank-bridge had been drawn up on the bank.
The instant they were gone Branwen pushed the plank-bridge across the chasm, and disappeared in the secret cave. Half an hour later the two officers were seated with some of the men at the camp-fire nearest the hut, making preparations for going to rest, when they were startled by the creaking of the hut door. To their intense surprise it opened wide enough to let a little old woman step out.
On this plank-bridge sat the Christ, His legs hidden in this tomb, holding a cross. His face was haggard and hollow, He was crowned with green thorns, and His emaciated body was spotted all over by the ends of the scourges as if the wounds were flea-bites.
The little plank-bridge rattled as she tripped across it; and she fled faster lest any one should have heard and come to look. And, indeed, at the moment it rattled again behind her, and she started guiltily round. It proved, however, to be only Owd Bob, sweeping after, and she was glad. "Comin' wi' me, lad?" she asked as the old dog cantered up, thankful to have that gray protector with her.
This they knew at once from the fact that the plank-bridge, quadrupled in width to let the horse and cart pass, had been left undrawn as if to give them a mocking invitation to cross. Stalker at once accepted the invitation. The astute Bevan had, however, anticipated and prepared for this event by the clever use of a saw just before leaving.
He bounced over the plank-bridge: and as he came closer, M'Adam saw that in each hand brandished a brick. "Hoots, man! dinna throw!" he cried, making a feint as though to turn in sudden terror. "What's this? What's this?" gasped the secretary, waving his arms. "Bricks, 'twad seem," the other answered, staying his flight. The secretary puffed up like a pudding in a hurry. "Where's the Cup?
"Yo' may well say that," cried Tammas in a kind of ecstasy. "A proper Gray Dog, I tell yo'. Wi' the brains of a man and the way of a woman. Ah, yo' canna beat 'em nohow, the Gray Dogs o' Kenmuir!" The patter of cheery feet rang out on the plank-bridge over the stream below them. Tammas glanced round. "Here's David," he said. "Late this mornin' he be."
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