They climbed and climbed without looking back.

Her breast labored; she began to feel as if little points of fiery steel were penetrating her side into her lungs.

She heard the panting of Lassiter and the quicker panting of the dogs.
"Wait--here," he said.
Before her rose a bulge of stone, nicked with little cut steps, and above that a corner of yellow wall, and overhanging that a vast, ponderous cliff.
The dogs pattered up, disappeared round the corner.

Lassiter mounted the steps with Fay, and he swayed like a drunken man, and he too disappeared.

But instantly he returned alone, and half ran, half slipped down to her.
Then from below pealed up hoarse shouts of angry men.