heroic hour, but the bigger love-sick fool than ever. “But quick - quick - quick!” I added, as she brought me to my senses by withdrawing her hands. “We’ve no time to lose.” And I looked wildly from wall to wall, only to find them as barren and inaccessible on this side as on the other.
“We have more time than you think,” were Eva’s first words. “We can do nothing for half-an-hour.”
“Why not?”
“I’ll tell you in a minute. How did you manage to get over?”
“Brought boulders from the beck, and piled ‘em up till I could reach the top.”
“Meet him in town?”
I said I had, but I said it with some coolness, for his tone had dropped into the confidential, and I disliked it as much as this string of questions from a stranger.
“Long ago, sir?” he pursued.
“No, sir; not long ago,” I retorted.
“May I ask your name?” said he.
“You may