"Maybe I can help you to escape from here," said Jackie Tar, "and maybe I can't, but I can try. I've had a plan in my mind for a long time but I've had no one to help me but these Japs, and they're not worth the paint on their faces. Are you brave enough to risk it with me?"
Kernel Cob swelled out his chest and showed his medals, and told Jackie Tar how he had fought the savages single handed.
"You'll do," laughed the sailor, and he told them his plan. "Do you see that red box over there in the corner?
"Well, that's a Japanese kite. It goes up into the air very quickly. What I say to do is to climb into the kite, and go up with it. It's a big one and will carry us all."
"Where'll we go to?" asked the Villain.
"What care we, as long as we get out of here," and he hitched his trousers as real sailors do.
"Will you do it?"
"You bet," said Kernel Cob.
So it was agreed that they would go up in the kite, and they moved over to it and tugged at it till they had it in the center of the room. Then a great clatter of talk arose from all the Japanese dolls, which sounded like a lot of chickens calling for their dinner; but Kernel Cob and Jackie Tar and the Villain and Sweetclover paid no heed to them, but only tugged the harder till they had the kite out into the middle of the road.