Not much chance of any one outside hearing us, even if we do clamor,
but this is a damp situation, and loud talk is bad for the throat. Cut
a slice of that brown bread and lunch with me. You'll find it not half
bad, as you say in England, especially when you are hungry. Now,"
continued Jack, as his friend stood opposite him, and they found by
experiment that their combined reach was not long enough to enable
them to shake hands through the bars, "now, while you are luxuriating
in the menu of the Trogzmondoff, I'll give you a sketch of my plan for
escape."
"Do," said Drummond.
"I happen to have with me a pair of bottles containing a substance
which, if dissolved in water, and sprinkled on this rock, will
disintegrate it. It proves rather slow work, I must admit, but I
intend to float in to you one of the bottles, and the apparatus, so
that you may help me on your side, which plan has the advantage of
giving you useful occupation, and allowing us to complete our task in
half the time, like the engineers on each side of the Simplon Tunnel."
"If there are bars in the lower watercourse," objected Drummond,
"won't you run a risk of breaking your bottle against them?"
"Not the slightest. I have just sent that much thinner electric lamp
through, but in this case I'll just tie up the bottle and squirt gun
in my stocking, attach that to the wire, and the current will do the
rest. You can unload, and I'll pull my stocking back again.
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