“Where?” and they all came around to his side.
“There, right near where the mouth of the bag is fastened to the cordage. Don’t you see them?”
“Sure enough! There they are!” exclaimed Bart.
Then the others beheld the brown and red cords that connected, one with the valve in the top, and the other with the strip, to be ripped out, in case of emergency.
“We can’t reach ’em,” said Ned. “They’re ten feet up.”
This was so. The ends of the cords had, in some way, been caught in the netting and were held at least ten feet above the edge of the basket. To reach them meant a dizzy and dangerous climb.
Stumpy looked first from one side of the basket and then from the other, at the cords that meant so much to them. He took off his coat and vest and began removing his shoes.
“What are you going to do?” asked Bart.
“I’m going to get those cords down where we can reach ’em,” said Fenn shortly.