After I have hoisted up our stores and made the ladder, I will endeavor to devise an efficient cordon of sentinels around our position.

We will see." Not another word could Iris get out of him on the topic.

Indeed, he provided her with plenty of work.

By this time she could splice a rope more neatly than her tutor, and her particular business was to prepare no less than sixty rungs for the rope-ladder.

This was an impossible task for one day, but after dinner the sailor helped her.