Part 75 (1/2)
”If you do you will knock me to the bottom, so just you hold on till I tells you”
Je; but if any one could have looked on, he would have seen that his face was curiouslywhen at liberty, and that there was a curiously wild, set look in his eyes
”There, Mas' Don,” he said cheerily, as he finished cli sidewise till he was exactly beneath ”Now, one moment That's it”
As he spoke he drew hi fast hold of the ste stone, while he found foot-hold in a wide crevice
”Now then, rest your foot on my shoulders There you are That's the way Two heads is better than one”
”Can you bear ht? Why? You may stand there for a week Now just you rest your wristies a bit, and then go on cli down, just as if I warn't here”
The minute before Don had felt that he could bear the strain no longer
Now the despairing sensation which cahter as he stood on Jeht another hold for his hands lower down The wild, fluttering pulsation ceased, and he grew composed
”I'm rested now, Jem,” said Don
”Of course you are, my lad Well, then, now you can climb down aside me 'Tarn't so much farther to the bottoh for me to come between you and the rock?”
”Just you try, Mas' Don”
By this ti hi hih rooht below, the bush to which Je with one hand came slowly out of the interstices of the stones, and but for the exercise of a large aidity of will, he would have swung round and fallen headlong
”I'ht now, Jem!” cried Don from below
”Glad of it,do”
”How, Mas' Don?” said Jeht; but the bush I held on by is gone”
”Well take hold of another”
”Just you get from under me, Mas' Don”
”Why? What do you mean?”
”I'm too heavy to ketch like a cricket ball That's all, er”
”Not I, my lad, if you don't want me to; but it is awk'ard Stand clear,” he shouted ”I' down No, I arn't,” he said directly after, as he h ste first by one hand and then by two