“Help! help!” the naturalist cried, as he felt himself dangling.
“This will not do!” exclaimed Jerry. “Let him down easy, boys; I’ll have to think of another plan.”
It began to look as though the rescue of the men on the ledge was to be a harder task than at first supposed. At Jerry’s direction, the end of the rope the boys had was fastened to a stake driven into the ground.
“Now I wonder what we’d better do?” mused Jerry. “We’ll have to use the limb of the tree as a roller, and some one has to hold it in place. Yet it will take all three of us to pull one man up. If only one of the men was up here to give a hand we could manage. As it is——”
“I have it!” cried Ned, suddenly, and he ran back to where the auto stood.
[CHAPTER XXII.]
THE CHASE.
Ned reached the machine, cranked it up, and a few minutes later steered it close to where Bob and Jerry stood.
“The auto can do what we can’t,” he said.