The hold is a very strong one, and a strict watch is kept at night; and, before we could carry it, we should have all the Bairds on the countryside down upon us.
"Can you get me a rope?
I want a long and a strong one." "There are some ropes in the stable, master, but they are in use, and would be missed." "Then run, at the top of your speed, down to the town; and buy a rope strong enough to hold the weight of half a dozen men.

I shall want a hundred feet of it.

Here is money." The man shot away into the darkness and, in a little over a quarter of an hour, was back again with the rope.

Oswald took off his doublet.
"Wind it round and round me," he said.

"Begin under the arms.