"Please don't!" Tallente shrugged his shoulders.
"I took him at no disadvantage," he said coolly.

"He knew how to use the gloves and he was twenty years younger than I.However, there it is.
Backwards he went, all legs and arms and shrieks.

And with him went the papers he had stolen .-- At twelve o'clock to-night, Robert, I must go down after him." "It's impossible, sir! It's a sheer precipice for four hundred feet!" "Nothing of the sort," was the cool reply.

"There are heaps of ledges and little clumps of pines and yews.

All that you will have to do is to pull up the rope when I am ready.