“They’ve come back,” she gasped. “The underground passage! Hark - hark!”
There was a muffled rush of feet beneath our own, then a dull but very distinguishable clatter on some invisible stair.
“Underground passage!” I exclaimed, and in my sheer disgust I forgot what was due to my darling. “Why on earth didn’t you tell me of it before?”
“There was so much to tell you! It leads to the sea. Oh, what shall we do? You must hide - upstairs - anywhere!” cried Eva, wildly. “Leave them to me - leave them to me.”
foreign devil! And you never let out one word of that!”
“What was the good?” said I. “They are all gone now - all gone to their account. Every man of us was a brute at the last. There was nothing to be gained by telling the public that.”
He let me go on until I came to another point which I had hitherto