"Will you swear that he is not here ?" "I swear that if you do not go I will raise the alarm!" she hissed--all their words were sunk to that stealthy note.

"Go! if you have not stayed too long already.

Go! Or see!" And she pointed to the trapdoor, from which the face and arms of a sixth man had that moment risen--the face dark with perturbation, so that her woman's wit told her at once that something was amiss.

"See what has come of your delay already!" "The water is rising," the man muttered earnestly.

"In God's name come, whether you have done it or not, or we cannot pass out again.