"Hold tight, and go as quickly as you can." "Not without you!" "Up, for God's sake! I follow at your heels." She began to climb.

He took some article from between his teeth, a string apparently, and drew it towards him, mounting the ladder at the same time.

The end tightened.

He was then about ten feet from the ground.

Two Dyaks, yelling fiercely, rushed from the cover of the house.
"Go on," he said to Iris.