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The ladder that Grenville constructed in the morning was not entirely new. He had found upon testing the original contrivance, made for his seance with the tiger, that, although the creepers had become quite dry, they were neither weak nor brittle.
He fortified the older section with additional material, however, to make absolutely certain it would not abruptly part and drop him into the sea. All morning he worked, while his smoldering fires continued to eat out the hollow for his boat, securing new length to the rungs already provided, since the distance down from the brink of the cliff was fully one hundred feet.