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Updated: June 14, 2025
He had been given to understand that there was no other means of reaching Quill's Window save from the top of the rock. These niches or "hand-holds" were about two feet apart. He examined the lower ones. They were deeply chiselled, affording a substantial foothold as well as a grip for a strong, resolute climber.
For some distance, all went very well, the face of the cliff presuming slight inequalities of surface, which answered for foot-and hand-holds, and not being very steep; but suddenly Mysie, the leader of the group, arriving within about three feet of the top, found the rock above her so smooth as to give no possible foothold by which she might reach the strong, coarse grass which nodded tauntingly to her over the brink.
"Here's a straight piece of road ahead, girls. Hold on!" As he spoke, he manipulated the levers and the car leaped ahead. Ruth's startled "Oh!" was left a quarter of a mile behind. The girls clung to the hand-holds, and Tom crouched behind the windshield and "let her out." It was a straight piece of road, as he had said.
Once, there was a ten-foot leap, above half a thousand feet of yawning emptiness and down a fathom's length to a meagre foothold. And he, despite his cool head, lost it another time on a shelf, a scant twelve inches wide, where all hand-holds seemed to fail him.
If he had only had hand-holds on them, he would have been quite content. As it was, he was grinning. "Gee, Dad!" gasped Lewis, "d'you know those horses are still trotting!" Leighton leaned forward. "Got a match, William?" he shouted above the creak and rattle of the carryall. "Heh?" yelled William. The bays let out another link. "Got a match?" repeated Leighton. "I want to smoke."
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