Even then there shone into my memory the thought of how my lady had prayed for her little friend when he was stolen (which I had thought strange, and scarcely warranted by our Faith), and with that, hope wakened within me.

My eyes being now more accustomed to the darkness, I saw that the thing which the jackanapes gave me was a little wallet, for he had been taught to fetch and carry, and never was such a marvel at climbing.

But as I was caressing him, I found a string about his neck, to which there seemed to be no end.

Now, at length, I comprehended what was toward, and pulling gently at the string, I found, after some time, that it was attached to something heavy, on the outside of the casement.

Therefore I set about drawing in string from above, and more string, and more, and then appeared a knot and a splice, and the end of a thick rope.