"Excellent; but how to descend?"
"Help me."
"In what?"
"To search my paillasse."
"A ladder of cord!"
"Exactly."
"But how did you get it?"
"I received it with a file in a lark pie the day of my arrival."
"Certainly, you are decidedly a great man."
"I know it; besides that, I am a good man—for I might escape alone."