He carried her to a little nook and fumbled among the stores until he found a bottle of brandy.

She drank some.

Under its revivifying influence she was soon able to listen to the explanation he offered--after securing the ladder.
In a tall tree near the Valley of Death he had tightly fixed a loaded rifle which pointed at a loose stone in the rock overhanging the ledge held by the Dyaks.

This stone rested against a number of percussion caps extracted from cartridges, and these were in direct communication with a train of powder leading to a blasting charge placed at the end of a twenty-four inch hole drilled with a crowbar.

The impact of the bullet against the stone could not fail to explode some of the caps.