Hold tight! But have no fear! I will be just beneath." It was well he took this precaution.

She was now so unnerved that an unguarded movement might have led to an accident.

But the knowledge that her lover was near, the touch of his hand guiding her feet on to the rungs of the ladder, sustained her.

They had almost reached the level when a loud exclamation and the crash of a heavy blow caused Jenks to halt and look downwards.
A Dyak, lying at the foot of one of the scaling ladders, and severely wounded by a shell splinter, witnessed their descent.

In his left hand he grasped a parang; his right arm was bandaged.