[Cormorant Crag by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookCormorant Crag CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE 22/22
You try to climb, and you are not ze leetler _mouche_--fly.
You fall and die; and if you essay to svim, ze sharp tide take you avay to drown.
Go and svim if you like: I sall not have ze pain to drown you. But, my faith! vy do I tell you all zis? You bose know zat you cannot get avay now ze passage is stop up vis stone, and I stop him vis a man who has sword and pistol as vell.
Go and help ze men." He walked away, leaving the boys together, carefully avoiding each other's eyes, as they felt that they were prisoners indeed, and wondered what was to be their fate. Vince took a few turns up and down upon the sand with his hands deep in his pockets.
Mike seated himself upon the keg he had occupied over his breakfast, for in their frame of mind they both resented being ordered to go and help the men; but at that time the worst pang of all seemed to be caused by the fact that, just at the moment when they wanted each other's help and counsel, with the strength of mind given by the feeling that they were together, they were separated by the unfortunate conduct of one..
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