It was our captain who said, 'We must take them prisoners,' was it not so ?" "Yes; that was Mr.Armitage's wish." "Then I saw that we were going toward the bridge, the one they do not use, there at the deep ravine.

I had crossed it once and knew that it was weak and shaky, and I slacked up and watched him.

He kept on, and just before he came to it, when I was very close to him, for he was a slow runner--yes?
being so big and clumsy, he turned and shot at me with his revolver, but he was in a hurry and missed; but he ran on.

His feet struck the planks of the bridge with a great jar and creaking, but he kept running and stumbled and fell once with a mad clatter of the planks.
He was a coward with a heart of water, and would not stop when I called, and come back for a little fight.

The wires of the bridge hummed and the bridge swung and creaked.