Now he was startled and angry and, being angry, his habitual stubbornness developed.
"I shan't go home neither," he whispered, fiercely.

"If you can't come down I'll--I'll come up and get you." "Shh--shh! He'll hear you.

Kenelm'll hear you." "I don't care much if he does.

See here, Hannah, can't you get down nohow?
How about that window?
Can't you climb out of that window?
Say, didn't I see a ladder layin' alongside the woodshed this mornin' ?" "Yes, there's a ladder there, but--where are you goin'?
Mr.
Hammond--Caleb--" But Caleb was on his way to the woodshed.

He found the ladder and laboriously dragged it beneath the window.