When the man's head reappeared, he came up briskly.
"All right?" she asked.
"All right," he responded.
"Did you test the other end?"
"Right enough-" said the man. "Safe as a church! The water barrel in the garden stuck a little-but I eased it up-" He looked back into the hole, as he stepped out. "Too bad we had to take her down," he sai