Part 49 (1/2)
”How can we go?”
”How? Easy enough Get on deck, slide down a rope over the side when it's dark”
”In irons?”
”They don't weigh rating, and hold on by that till we'd swam ashore”
”And the sharks, Jem?”
”Oh, those sharks!” cried Jeet the as a shark on the face of the earth
Well, we h to say, Jem; but ay is there?”
”Oh, I don't know yet, Mas' Don; but they say, 'where there's a will there's a way' P'r'aps I can think it out 'Me case as was too wide to come into the loarehouse?”
”Yes”
”Well, your uncle said he'd be obliged to have the doorposts cut, but I thought that out after I'd o in at the top warehouse doors if we hauled it up with the crane”
”You used to call it winding anything up, Jem”
”Ay, but I hadn't been to sea then, Mas' Don Well, didn't I have that there case up to the top floor, and then lower it down through all the traps, and get it into the ground floor without the door being cut; and when your uncle coed it?”
”Yes, I remember it all,” said Don sadly
”Look here, you two I don't want to be hard,” said theto clap on the hatchways, or aht, Jolly; on't talk any ht
There was no release next day, and very drearily it passed till towards evening, when Jem waited till the sentry's back was turned, and put his lips to Don's ear
”I've got it, Mas' Don,” he said
”What, can you see your way to escape?”
”I've hit it out, ot on?”
”Yes They don't make irons for boys”
”Then look here, ot to do is to squeeze your feet through those rings, and then I'll be bound to say a thin slip of a fellow like you can creep out of the iron round your waist”
”I don't think so, Jem I'm stouter than you fancy”