30/40 It is wider than the last, but is really no distance. Give me your doublet again." "I don't mind this so much," Paolo said. "I cannot be colder than I am." "Don't try to swim, Paolo; lie on your back, with your mouth just out of water. I will have you over in no time." It was fully fifty yards across; but, accustomed to bathe in almost icy cold water, the swim was nothing to Hector, who was soon across, and who then towed Paolo over as before. They mounted another glacis, and presently reached the edge of a third moat. |