“How far I wonder?” asked Ned.
“Well, we can stop when we want to,” said Bart.
“How?” inquired Fenn.
“By pulling the valve cord, of course. Don’t you know what the man told us?”
“Oh, of course. Well then, let’s pull it. This is high enough for me.”
They all stood up and began looking for the valve and ripping cords. The man had told them they were connected with the basket, but on previous trips they had not thought to search them out amid the mass of cordage.
“One’s brown and the other’s red,” spoke Bart.
“I don’t see any,” said Fenn, after a long gaze aloft.
“I either,” admitted Bart, and the others had to confess they saw nothing of the cords.