A PIECE OF LEAD IN THE AIR "Get your wind back," advised Tom.

"Also ease your shoulder a bit." "And then ?" "We'll carry the trunks up the slope and dump them in some depression in the rock." "What's the use of the trunks, anyway ?" Harry wanted to know.
"No one else will shelter us in this country.

We can't get a wagon to take our trunks away in.

Surely, you don't intend to shoulder these trunks to the railway station--seventy miles away ?" "No," Reade admitted.

"We'll have to abandon our trunks.