“He can’t know that,” said Jack. “He didn’t see our messages.”
“I say! I’ve got an idea!” said Mike. “What about us making a rope-ladder and getting up to the tower-room on it at night?”
“But how could we get it up to the window?” said Nora.
“Well, if we can tell the prisoner about it he can help to pull it up,” said Jack. “You know how to get a rope-ladder up to a high window, don’t you? First of all you tie a stone or something heavy on to a long piece of string. Then you tie the piece of string on to a thin twine. Then you tie the twine to the rope-ladder. You throw the stone up to the window and the person there catches it, pulls up the string. Pulls up the twine - and the rope-ladder comes last of all! He fixes it safely to something and escapes!”
“That’s a grand idea!” said the others.
“Let’s try it,” said Peggy.
“We’ll have to get string and twine and rope,” said Nora.
“George will let us have some,” said Mike.
“Let’s go and ask him now!” said Jack, jumping up. So down the stairs they rushed and out into the field where they knew George was working that day.
“George, George! Can you let us have lots of string and twine and rope?” yelled Jack.