I can get all that part of the work done today.

Tonight I will do the knotting.

Of course, I shall make it a goodish bit over two hundred feet long, for it may turn out that I have not judged the depth right, and that the cliff is higher than I thought it was.
"I don't think sawing up the spear shafts will take more than an hour or two, so I shall be able to show myself about the place as usual.

I will go over and take a good look at the rock again, and stick a spear head into the ground, at the point where it seems to me that it goes down straightest, and where there is the least chance of the rope getting rubbed against a sharp edge.

I sha'n't begin at the wall until tomorrow, for I don't suppose I shall be able to get out the first few stones without making a bit of a noise, and it would not do to work at night.
"Now, lad, I think we can consider that as all settled, and I won't come near you again, unless there is some change of plan.