Sergeant Verity And the Blood Royal
“Their arrival would make hardly a sound. Dacre paused a moment, long enough for them to be sieved out, then ripped open the second bag and disposed of its contents in the same manner. There was no time to do more than drop the empty bags into the chimney. They would not have moved easily in the canvas chute, and by falling directly to the bottom of the main stack, they would lie directly above the melting-shop furnaces and burn up within a few hours.One after another, Dacre emptied the bags and... shot their coins into the canvas gulley. His limbs ached as he braced himself in the narrow chimney opening. But he knew, from the angle and tautness of the canvas banner, that the coins were rolling and slithering down its incline like water in a channel-pipe. He worked till his nails bled and his hands throbbed with the cold. It must have been two o'clock by the time that he began to pull the rope upward, and a clock had struck three in the chill air before he felt a sudden yielding and knew that he had come to the last twenty feet or so of its length.There was no way of warning Morant-Barham that things had not gone quite as he intended, that the amount of gold required a second descent.MoreLess
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