Trot couldn't sleep, either, she was so worried over Cap'n Bill. She
went back to the tent where Rosalie and Button-Bright were sitting
in the moonlight and asked the Witch if there was no way in which
she could secretly get into the City of the Blues and search for her
friend. Rosalie thought it over for some time and then replied:
"We can make a rope ladder that will enable you to climb to the top
of the wall and descend into the City. But if anyone should see you,
you would be captured."
"I'll risk that," said the child, excited at the prospect of gaining
the side of Cap'n Bill in this adventurous way. "Please make the
rope ladder at once, Rosalie!"
So the Witch took some ropes and knotted together a ladder long
enough to reach the top of the wall. When it was finished, the
three--Rosalie, Trot and Button-Bright--stole out into the moonlight
and crept unobserved into the shadow of the wall. The Blueskins were
not keeping a very close watch, as they were confident the Pinkies
could not get into the City.
The hardest part of Rosalie's task was to toss up one end of the
rope ladder until it would catch on some projection on top of the
wall. There were few such projections, but after creeping along the
wall for a distance, they saw the end of a broken flagstaff near the
top edge. The Witch tossed up the ladder, trying to catch it upon
this point, and on the seventh attempt she succeeded.
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