He went higher and higher, and we could hear his voice coming down to us.

At last it stopped, and then suddenly the rope fell in coils on the ground, and the boy walked quietly in, just as that girl has done now." The girl now placed herself in the center of the open space.
"You will please not to speak while this trick is being performed," the juggler said; "harm might come of it.

Watch the ground near her feet." A minute later a dark object made its appearance from the ground.

It rose higher and higher with an undulating movement.
"By Jove, it is a python!" the Doctor whispered in Bathurst's ear.

A similar exclamation broke from several of the others, but the juggler waved his hand with an authoritative hush.