A number of them carried torches, and all worked steadily and in good order, under the direction of two or three officers.

One of the posts of the stockade had been pulled up and through this the bodies were carried.

It was less than two hours before a horn sounded, and there was a loud call of: "The peace is over; all is done." Beyond the stockade great fires blazed among the trees.

The work of chopping down the forest continued, and by the morning the ground had been cleared for a distance of thirty or forty yards from the paling.

Then the Burmese raised another stockade forty feet behind the first, so that, if by carelessness or treachery the besieged should manage to pass through the first line, there would yet be another in front of them.
"I expect, master," Meinik said as, standing well back, he watched the men at work, "the general is building this second line, not because he thinks that there is a chance of our getting through the first, but to keep the men at work, so as to prevent them from thinking anything about the spirits.