The funds paid for a new, metal roof, replacement windows and doors and a towering, girdered skeleton that now holds the walls in place until the interior can be built out.

Their laughter startles the scarlet dawn Among a tangled spiderwork Of girdered steel, and shrills forlorn And dies in the rasp of wheels.

During the brief struggle, Qanya had watched without making a sound, hands pressed against the girdered wall at her back.

That they had food sufficient to last them for several days was quite certain, while the question of drink was cleared up already—for they had discovered a trap-door in the girdered ceiling above them and an iron ladder outside the door of the room, which, when put in position, gave access to it.

The murky, girdered ceiling still three hundred feet above him.