He would then hurry back to bring Iris across the island to an unfrequented beach known as the Porto do Conceicao, where he would embark her on a catamaran and row out to the steamer, which, by that time, would be lying off the harbor out of range of the troops who would surely be summoned from the distant fort.
The project bristled with audacity, and that has ever been the soul of achievement.

Even the two wounded men from the _Andromeda_ took heart when they listened to De Sylva's low-toned explanation, given under the shadow of a great rock ere the final advance was made.

If all went well at the beginning, the small garrison of the citadel would be astounded when they found themselves struggling against unknown adversaries.

Haste, silence, determination--these things were essential; each and all might be expected from men who literally carried their lives in their hands.
A keen breeze was blowing up there on the ridge.

A bank of cloud was rising in the southwest horizon, and, at that season, when the months of rain were normally at an end, the mere presence of clouds heralded another spell of broken weather, though the preceding gale had probably marked the worst of it.