"Now, if we can't find the 'plane, we know where to aim if we have
to drop over this wall some other way."
The wall at that point was singularly uninviting. It rose so
straight that we had to put our heads over to see the base, and
the country below seemed to be a far-off marshy tangle of rank
vegetation. We did not have to risk our necks to that extent,
however, for at last, stealing along among the rocks and trees like
so many creeping savages, we came to that flat space where we
had landed; and there, in unbelievable good fortune, we found
our machine.
"Covered, too, by jingo! Would you think they had that
much sense?" cried Terry.
"If they had that much, they're likely to have more," I warned
him, softly. "Bet you the thing's watched."
We reconnoitered as widely as we could in the failing moonlight--
moons are of a painfully unreliable nature; but the growing dawn
showed us the familiar shape, shrouded in some heavy cloth
like canvas, and no slightest sign of any watchman near.
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