A few paces further they halted, and the cross pieces were lashed to the poles.
"Thank God that you are out, Harry!" Stanley said, as soon as they did this.

"Has it hurt you much ?" "Nothing to speak of," Harry replied.

"You managed it marvellously.
Am I really outside the place altogether ?" "Yes, fairly out.

You will be more comfortable when we have lashed these cross pieces.

You will not be lying, then, at the bottom of a bag; as you are now." When the work was completed, they proceeded at a rapid pace; for Harry's weight, reduced by fever as he had been, was a trifle to his bearers.