It was too dark to see the quality of it, but I thought it was very small.

However, I bought it.

One of these fellows must be treated as well as the other.
Maiden's Heart and the sentry were now feeling nervously in their pockets.
I shook my head vigorously, and saying, "No more! no more!" threw myself over the wall, and seized the rope, Rectus holding the grapnel in its place as I did so.

As I let myself down from knot to knot, a thought crossed my mind: "How are we going to get that grapnel after we both are down ?" It was a frightening thought.

If the two Indians should choose, they could keep the rope and grapnel, and, before morning, the whole posse of red-skins might be off and away! I did not think about their being so far from home, and all that.