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of you! Mr. Jamieson is here--not far away. I'm going to tell him where you are." She marked the location of the window carefully, and then, sure that she would remember it when she returned, went back to Jamieson. "Did you locate them? Good work!" he said. "All right. Go back now and tell them to make a rope of their sheets--good and strong. I saw where you were standing, and, if they lower that, I don't think we will have any trouble getting up to their window. I want to be inside that house--and I don't want Holmes to know I'm there until I'm ready." He chuckled. "He thinks I'm back in the city. I want him to have a real surprise when he finally does see me." Bessie slipped back then and told Dolly what to do, and in a few minutes the rope of sheets came down, rustling against the ivy. Bessie made the signal she had agreed on with Jamieson at once--a repetition of the bird's call, and he joined her. Then he picked her up and started her climbing up the wall, with the aid of tie rope and the ivy. For a girl as used to climbing trees as Bessie, it was a task of no great difficulty, and in a minute she was safely inside the room, and had turned to watch Jamieson following her. His greater weight made his task more difficult, and twice those above had all they could do to repress screams of terror, for the ivy gave way, and he seemed certain to fall. But he was a trained athlete, and a skillful climber as well, and, difficult as the ascent proved to be for him, he managed it, and clambered over the sill of the window and into the room, breathless, but smiling and triumphant. "Oh, I'm so glad you're here, Charlie!" said Eleanor. "There is someone we can trust, after all, isn't there?" "Oh, sure!" he said. "Don't you take on, Nell, and don't ask a lot of questions now. It'll be daylight pretty soon--and, believe me, when the light comes, there's going to be considerable excitement around these parts." "But why did you bring Bessie back here? How did she find you?" He raised his hand with a warning gesture, and smiled. "Remember, Nell, no questions!" he said. "All we can do just now is to wait." Wait they did--and in silence, save for an occasional whisper. "That man Holmes has a woman guarding us," whispered Eleanor. "She is just outside the door in the hall--sleeping there. The idea is to keep us from leaving these rooms. Evidently they never thought of our going by the window. We did think of
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