"We've no time to lose." And I looked wildly from wall to wall, only to find them as barren and inaccessible on this side as on the other.
"We have more time than you think," were Eva's first words.

"We can do nothing for half-an-hour." "Why not ?" "I'll tell you in a minute.

How did you manage to get over ?" "Brought boulders from the beck, and piled 'em up till I could reach the top." I thought her eyes glistened.
"What patience!" she cried softly.

"We must find a simpler way of getting out--and I think I have.

They've all gone, you know, but Jose." "All three ?" "The captain has been gone all day." Then the other two must have been my horse-men, very probably in some disguise; and my head swam with the thought of the risk that I had run at the very moment when I thought myself safest.