Then you must get off the ledge and hang by your two hands.

When you hear the last stroke of nine, you must let go and drop.

I shall be there." "But if you shouldn't be there, Dickory?
Couldn't you whistle, couldn't you call gently ?" "No," said Dickory; "if I did that, their sharp ears would hear and lanterns would be flashed on us, and perhaps things would be cast down upon us.

That would be the quickest way of getting rid of you." "But, Dickory," she said, after a moment's silence, "it is terrible about my father and Ben Greenway.

Why don't they come back?
What's the matter with them ?" He hesitated a little before answering.
"From what I heard, I think there is some trouble on shore, and that's the reason why your father has not come for you as soon as he expected.
But he thinks you safe with Ben Greenway.