These spring tides run wildly at this time of year," he said.

"We must be going." Then was no more delay, but the horns blew the recall, and the men came in.

We had lost none, but I do not think that many outlaws were left.
They brought a farm horse, with baskets slung across its back in the Sussex manner, and into them the gold was put.

I looked down into the vault as the men left it, and saw that Relf was there, and that they had tried every great stone in the walls in search of another chamber, but that there had not been one.

And when he came up I was about to draw up the ladder after him, and looked down for the last time.
There at the ladder's foot sat the elvish toad, and it seemed to me that it looked pitifully up at the light.