A PAIR OF BLUE Swancourt, Knight, and the Avinding turret
ping forward
-with
EYES.
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Elfricle, all
— Mr.
ascended
Swancourt
many loud
step-
pants,
his
wife struggling along silently, but suffering
none the the top
They had hardly reached
less.
when
a large lurid cloud, palpably
a reservoir of rain, thunder, and lightning
was seen
to be advancing overhead
from
the north.
The two cautious
elders suggested an
immediate return, and proceeded to put
it
in practice as regarded themselves. '
Dear me,
I
wish
I
had not come
up,'
exclaimed Mrs. Swancourt.
'We
shall
be slower than you two in
going down,' the vicar said over his shoulder,
'and
so,
don't
you
at the bottom, or
start
you
till
will
we
are nearly
run over us and
break our necks somewhere in the darkness of the turret.'
Accordingly Elfride and Knight waited
on the leads clear.
till
the staircase should be
Knight was not
in a talkative
mood
