CHAPTER XXVI.
A DOG DIES GAME Clambering out of the hold, the three detectives and Cleggett briefly made their followers acquainted with the extraordinary turn of events.
The Rev.Mr.Calthrop, Miss Pringle's Jefferson, and Washington Artillery Lamb were detailed to guard the Jasper B.end of the tunnel.
The others, seizing their rifles, raced across the sands towards Morris's.
In a few moments the place was invested, with riflemen on every side except the south, which fronted on the bay.

The steel-jacketed bullets from the high-power guns tore through and through the flimsy walls.
Nevertheless the defenders replied pluckily, and the siege might have dragged on for hours had it not been for the courage and resource of Kuroki.

Gaining the stable, Kuroki found an old pushcart there.

He piled three bales of hay upon it, and then set fire to the hay.
Pushing the cart before him, and crouching behind the bales to protect himself from revolver shots, he worked his way to the east verandah of the building and left the hay blazing against the planks.

Then he ran as if the devil were after him, and was almost out of pistol shot before he got a bullet in the calf of his leg.
The blaze caught the wood and spread.