"Get a rope and let down here."

"There is not ten feet of rope in the outfit."

"Send for help then. I've got to get out of here somehow."

"Tell him there is no help that we could depend upon, within twenty or
thirty miles of here," said the Professor.



CHAPTER VI

MAKING THE BEST OF IT


They were well along in the afternoon now and their predicament was
apparently serious.

"There seems to be only one way out of the difficulty," said the
Professor, after a little thought.

"What's that, Professor?" asked Walter.

"We must send for help, distant as it is."

"If you will pardon my differing with you, Professor, we have help in
plenty right here and a lazy Indian thrown in for good measure," said
Chunky.