24/48 It is most important to get them done. You make the one at the end, I will do that one looking into the street. Put it as close to the beam as you can." They worked hard, and it was not long before the walls were pierced. The fellows will soon be within range, and I will give them a lesson to be careful. They will naturally break up, and go round behind the houses opposite, as they can find shelter nowhere else; and, for a bit at any rate, we shall get them all on one side of us, which is what we want." Dick carried the six guns to the end of the hut, and then applied his eye to the loophole there. |