? ? ? ? "Bring the rope with you. Beyond the knots lies danger."
? ? ? ? That was all there was to this message. It was evidently hastily formed--an afterthought.
? ? ? ? I did not pause longer than to learn the contents of the second message, and, though I was none too sure of the meaning of the final admonition, "Beyond the knots lies danger," yet I was sure that here before me lay an avenue of escape, and that the sooner I took advantage of it the more likely was I to win to liberty.
? ? ? ? At least, I could be but little worse off than I had been in the Pit of Plenty.
? ? ? ? I was to find, however, ere I was well out of that damnable hole that I might have been very much worse off had I been compelled to remain there another two minutes.
? ? ? ? It had taken me about that length of time to ascend some fifty feet above the bottom when a noise above attracted my attention.
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