Why, you say the stair is only about forty feet." "I dare say you could, Harry; but we don't want to run any risks.
Your head is not very strong, at present; and you might turn giddy, or you might stumble.

So, at present, you will have just to do as you are told.
"Let us start." Harry did not find it as easy as he had expected, getting out through the lower opening; and he was by no means sorry to have the support of Stanley and Meinik, as he proceeded along the ledge.
They moved very carefully, and slowly; and all were greatly relieved when he sat down, on a blanket laid on the steps.
"Now lie back, Harry.

We shall have no difficulty in getting you up here." Two Burmans took the upper end of the blanket, Stanley and Meinik the lower, and they were soon at the top of the steps.
"You are not very heavy now, Harry; but you are a good deal heavier than you were, when we brought you in below.
"Now, the next is the most difficult part of the work--once we get you through this passage, it will be plain sailing.

You see, you will have to be dragged.

The place is only two feet high, so that it would be impossible to lift you at all.