“And the extra wiring?”
“I’ve got it,” Grove said.
He didn’t say anything more, and we kind of didn’t dare to speak to him. Pretty soon we came to a place where there was a part of the cliff broken away outside the fence, and Harry sat down on a rock and started connecting up the light.
“I don’t know if this blamed thing is going to work,” he said.
“If—if he should be down there,” Grove said; “could he be alive?”
Harry didn’t answer at all, he was so busy and worried.
“I can climb down,” I said, “if he’s there. He—he did me many a good turn, that’s one thing.”
“I can see him now, the way he was talking to Mrs. West,” Grove said.
“Here, stand this battery out of the way,” Harry said. “Look out you don’t trip over the wire. You boys keep back.”
“I’m not going to keep back,” I told him; “I want to see. If he’s down there, I’m going down. I know that. Who’s—who’s got a—a better right to know than we have——”