And they legged it to some purpose; Terry—idiotically vociferous—leaping on before....
FOOTNOTES:
[37] Crude arrangement.
[38] Sound arrangement.
[39] Shameful talk.
CHAPTER II.
| "I seek what I cannot get; |
| I get what I do not seek." |
| —Rabindranath Tagore. |
Then the storm broke in earnest....
Crash on flash, crash on flash—at ever-lessening intervals—the tearless heavens raged and clattered round his unprotected head. Thunder toppled about him like falling timber stacks. Fiery serpents darted all ways at once among black boughs that swayed and moaned funereally. The gloom of the forest enhanced the weird magnificence of it all: and Roy—who had just been within an ace of flinging away his life—felt irrationally anxious on account of thronging trees and the absence of rain.