She dares not look: it is terrible enough to hear!
So evenly do they approach, that at the same instant they reached the summit.
Then she rises majestically to her full height, spreads her arms, and utters a cry which is heard simultaneously at Cairo, at Zanzibar, and at Cape Town.
A terrible silence follows, broken only by the trembling of the mountain and the breathless panting of the three figures as each rears himself slowly to his feet.
The scene that followed may be more easily imagined than described.
Story 14.
Chapter Fourteen.
All comes out.
It is time we went back to the scene on the cliff at Crocusville narrated in the opening chapter.
Peeler, the coastguardsman, after descending the cliff, resumed his ordinary avocations, and sent his daughter to a superior high school.