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I could perceive, by , that he was busily engaged in rubbing his sorely lacerated sides, and I noted his brown jerkin had been fairly wrenched off his shoulders

"Where did you leave your coat?"

"Yonder in that accursed hole! It has store of provisions in its pockets Lord saveanxiously about in the scene of his late adventure until he finally brought forth thethe pockets to see their contents re it across his shoulders, like a pair of well-filled saddle-bags I reached in also, lowered the drapery, and then led down the dark tunnel as rapidly as the grie proved long and tedious; at least so it seeh the darkness However, it ran straight and upon a level, although the nuave us occasional foul blows, and proved so confusing ere considerable ti its distance All I have already pictured as occurring since I departed froed blindly into the underground labyrinths, had required several hours, and it looe traversed so long ter forth between two huge rocks To all appearances, it ended at the high bank of a noisy strea cliff The latter, devoid of path or chased suht the way ended here, but Cairnes pointed silently toward the right, and then I perceived where a path led upward, along thewater, yet ever rising higher above it, until, as s fro the possibilities of so mad a climb

"I suppose it must be tried," I ade Doubtless it leads straight to the top of the cliff"

"Ay," with more of indifference than I had expected, "and it will be no easy trick in the night"

"The night?"

"Surely, yes; when else could we expect to compass the path? Is it not plain, friend, that before we rose fifty feet we should be in full view of every eye in the valley with the sun bright upon us? I tell you we ht shadows, or else it will be safer to lie hidden here"