We prowled around in there for some time, exploring the cavity, being, as I remember, 75 or 100 feet deep.
When we got ready to climb out of our descension, Sam said to me: "How are we going to get out of here?"
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I told him that was easy. He said, "Go ahead."
"No," I said. "You go first and then I will come out. It is easy for me."
Well, Sam made a trial to go out, but made a complete failure, coming back down the rope in spite of me, and said, "I guess we are in here for good."
I told him I could go out in less than two minutes.
He said, "Let's see you." So, out I went.
Sam would not try any more, so I sent Mr. Brown to Carlsbad to get a rope long enough that I might make a rope ladder out of it and lower it down to Sam.