15/18 "Don't--don't! It's a hundred times worse kneeling here and seeing you than doing it oneself." "But I only want to see if there is a cave." "If the pigeons keep flying out there must be." "Well, there they go, and here are some more coming, and they've flown right in somewhere, so I suppose there is. Want to hear any more about the place ?" "No, no. Come up now." "All right, old chap; then I will, after one more look round and down below. The water is wild, though, and the rocks are grand; but old Joe is as right as can be: it's a terrible place, and unless any one likes to hang at the end of a three-hundred-feet rope he cannot get to the bottom here nor anywhere else along this cliff. It's just three parts of a round, and goes in all of a hollow below, where I am. |