I returned to Daddy Jacques and whispered the word '
ladder' in his ear.
This silence and this darkness emboldened Boxtel; he got astride the wall, stopped for an instant, and, after having ascertained that there was nothing to fear, he put his
ladder from his own garden into that of Cornelius, and descended.
As to the manner in which he (or they) obtained access to the roof of the tavern, it is to be remarked that the third house, lower down in the street, was empty, and under repair--that a long
ladder was left by the workmen, leading from the pavement to the top of the house-- and that, on returning to their work, on the morning of the 27th, the men found the plank which they had tied to the
ladder, to prevent anyone from using it in their absence, removed, and lying on the ground.
The Lion climbed the
ladder next, and the Tin Woodman came last; but both of them cried, "Oh, my!" as soon as they looked over the wall.
But there's one thing -- he can have a rope
ladder; we can tear up our sheets and make him a rope
ladder easy enough.
"It's only a sort of loft, reached by a
ladder, said Nolan.
"As the late cardinal used to say to the late king, `only to show you the way, sire.'" And Aramis ascended the
ladder quickly and reached the window in an instant.
"No," she answered; "Ellen is afraid to mount the
ladder. Joe is working over at the `pigeon house'--that's the name Ellen gives it, because it's so small and looks like a pigeon house--and some one has to do this."
"He said, 'Come, here's a
ladder that's of no use!' and he took it."
Not from compunction certainly, but, as it were me- chanically, I proceeded to get the
ladder in myself.
She saw the young officer suspended over the abyss by a
ladder of ropes.
This done, I put the
ladder against the house wall, listened, measured the distance to the open second-floor window with my eye, listened again--and, finding all quiet, began my second and last ascent.