"See here," said Holmes, pointing to the wooden hatchway. "We were hardly quick enough with our pistols." There, sure enough, just behind where we had been standing, stuck one of those murderous darts which we knew so well.
»Ziet hier," zei Holmes naar de houten knots wijzende, »wij waren juist bijtijds met onze revolvers."--En ja; juist achter de plek waar wij gestaan hadden, stak een dier moorddadige dorens, die wij maar àl te goed kenden.