He read aloud the number of steps in the different stairs. 'Thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-nine, forty-two,forty-seven,' and 'twenty-one' where the cliffs grew lower. I almost got up and shouted.
We hurried back to the town and sent a wire to MacGillivray. I wanted half a dozen men, and I directed them to divide themselves among different specified hotels. Then Scaife set out to prospect the house at the head of the thirty-nine steps.