Someone stopped at
the gate, and the latch rattled as someone tried to open it.
"My thanks, gentle palmer," quoth Robin, "your suggestion is good, and we will deploy to
the gate upon the far side."
Relocking
the gate the two strolled arm in arm to the little bower which was their trysting place.
Meanwhile, standing on the other side of
the gate, he calmly put the key in his pocket.
A hundred yards to my right was
the gate from which the troops were evidently expected to issue, but to reach it I must pass the flank of the green warriors within easy sight of them, and, fearing that my plan to warn the Kaolians might thus be thwarted, I decided upon hastening toward the left, where another gate a mile away would give me ingress to the city.
"Yes, from prison, perhaps, but not from the town; you will see, Van Deken, that the poor fellow will find
the gate closed against him which he hoped to find open."
PETER was most dreadfully frightened; he rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to
the gate.
Like a bitterly angry croaking ran the sound through the long corridors when the leaves of
the gate opened: ungraciously did this bird cry, unwillingly was it awakened.
Cautiously opening
the gate the fellow peered carefully along the wall upon the outside in the direction from which he had come.
Then the boy got off and gave him a hard thrashing, and knocked him about the head; then he got up again and tried to make him leap
the gate, kicking him all the time shamefully, but still the pony refused.
There was a bell beside
the gate, and Dorothy pushed the button and heard a silvery tinkle sound within.
They stopped before
the gate. It was a mighty thing.
It was only now, with the day drawing to a close and with them approaching
the gate of the road to Berkeley, that he had broached the important subject.
They had covered a good portion of the distance to
the gate without mishap when there came to their ears from the central portion of the city sounds of a great commotion.
But, there was no loud irruption into the courtyard, as he had expected, and he heard
the gate clash again, and all was quiet.
