CHAPTER FIFTEEN.
HOW LUDAR TOOK DUNLUCE.
At first I saw nothing but a jagged line of cliff-top, lower than where we stood, with the sea beyond.

Then I perceived that where Ludar pointed the line broke suddenly, and disclosed a great naked rock standing alone, sheer out of the water which leapt wildly all round it and thundered into the cave at its base.

I looked further.

I saw a narrow bridge across the chasm, while what I had first thought to be rugged piles of rock took the form of grim battlements and towers, rising so straight from the edge of the rock that I had thought them a part of it.

Across the bridge frowned an angry portcullis.