And Olaf and I went back up the ladder, leaving them, for the vault grew close and hot, and this was their business.

The earl would take it back to Pevensea, where it would be safe.

Word would go round quickly enough concerning the find, and of what value it was.

Nor would that grow less in the telling, though none of us had ever seen so much gold together before.
I suppose that I had been in the place for two hours or more, and the morning sky had changed strangely since the fight began.

The sun was hidden with a great mass of heavy clouds that were driving up fast from the southwest, although the woods around us were still and motionless in the hot, heavy air.