Part 47 (1/2)
”Thank goodness, we came out with our hole”
”It was a trick,” muttered Compton, abstractedly
”But who could play a trick like that?” asked Venning, in tre!”
Compton put his hand on the other's shoulder ”We've both had a rare fright, oldlike that upset our appetite Mr Hureen e dish”
”Hulloa, lads, I was just thinking of starting out after you Seen anything?”
”We've had a scare,” said Co look at Mr Hume; but already the observant eyes of the Hunter had seen that Venning was upset
”All right; just try this roasthand steadied the boy to his seat
Mr Hume talked, while they ate, about the cere, wordy argu the ownershi+p of a monkey, to which there were two claiarden where it had been caught
”Now,” he said, when they had eaten, ”you have so to tell me
Go ahead”
They related the incident, which lost nothing of its repulsiveness by the relation:
”And you saw no one”
”No one alive, but I believe there was trickery There must have been,” said Compton, with knit brows
”I think so too, but the trick was horrible enough to produce the effect desired I must say I felt a creepy sensation when I was down there yesterday”
”Butno one,” said Venning, with a shudder
”By Jove! I forgot this;” and Coment of cloth
”I took that fro,” said the Hunter
”Yes; but a bit torn out ofsnatched at it ”I have it,” he shouted
”I see you have; but you need not yell”
”The blind river! It comes out under the pool!”
Compton stared
”What do you mean?” asked Mr Hu which ss the river over there As it slipped fro out the bit of cloth, and nearly taking him down too”
”Well, what then?”