Now please, let us talk over our plan of escape first, for we may be interrupted at any moment." "Right you are, lad.

Does your friend here speak English?
For I have never got to be a good hand at their lingo.

I want to thank him, too, but as you say, time is precious, and we must postpone that." "He understands it, Father, and can talk it pretty fairly.

We have been constantly together for nearly two years.
"Now, in the first place, is there any place where we can get down from the top here, with the aid of a rope ?" "It would be a pretty tough job, anyhow, but at the farthest end of the rock is a place where it goes sharp down, as if cut with a knife.
That would be the best place to try.

I take it to be about two hundred feet deep.