"But how are we going to get 'em up?" asked Fenn.
By this time a large crowd had gathered. Some had brought ropes, and there were all sorts of suggestions as to how the rescue should be effected.
"I'll get them; or at least I'll go down and put a rope around them, so they can be hauled up," suddenly declared Frank. "I know how to reach that ledge. There's not much danger. Where's a rope?"
Several were soon produced, some neighboring clothes lines being confiscated. It seemed that all the crowd needed was some one to give orders. In a few minutes, with a rope tied around his waist Frank was being lowered over the cliff. Willing hands let him down until he was on the ledge. Then, having fastened the rope about the form of the unconscious young woman, padding it with his coat, so the strands would not cut her, he gave the signal to haul up. There was a cheer as the body was laid gently down on the grass at the top of the cliff, and some one called:
It was harder work for Frank to adjust the rope about the man's body, as he was very heavy, but the lad accomplished it, and the crowd above hauled the unfortunate automobilist up. Then Frank was raised from the ledge.
"Carry 'em to my house," cried Fenn. "The doctors will soon be there if Jim hasn't forgotten to telephone for 'em."
On stretchers, improvised from pieces of the fence, the bodies, of which that of the girl alone seemed to contain life, were carried to Fenn's house. The crowd followed but, at the door a constable named Darby, at Fenn's orders, refused admittance to all save the three chums, and those who had borne the stretchers.
"The doctors will need room to work," declared Fenn, when there were murmurs at what was his right, to exclude the mob from his home. "I'm glad mother's out," he said. "This would scare her into a fit."
"The doctors are coming," said Jim, who came into the house a moment later, after the man and young woman had been laid on beds where Fenn directed. "I telephoned to all in Darewell, but only three were home."
"That ought to be enough," declared Fenn. "I hope they can save their lives. There doesn't seem to be any evidences of injuries."
The medical men, under the direction of Dr. Fanwood, the eldest of the practitioners, made hasty examinations of the two victims of the accident.