Oh! Denys, let us turn back till daybreak; this is no mortal sight." Denys halted, and peered long and keenly.

"They are men," said he, at last.

Gerard was for turning back all the more.

"But men that will never hurt us, nor we them.

Look not to their feet, for that they stand on!" "Where, then, i' the name of all the saints ?" "Look over their heads," said Denys gravely.
Following this direction, Gerard presently discerned the outline of a dark wooden beam passing from pillar to pillar; and as the pair got nearer, walking now on tiptoe, one by one dark snake-like cords came out in the moonlight, each pendent from the beam to a dead man, and tight as wire.
Now as they came under this awful monument of crime and wholesale vengeance a light air swept by, and several of the corpses swung, or gently gyrated, and every rope creaked.