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Then perhaps I can get somebody to build stairs or steps of some kind by night . '' `` But we must go up-stairs , '' said Nan , who had covered her wigless head with a bandanna kerchief , bound round like a turban ; `` we want to dress properly before we breakfast . '' `` And we want to finish our sleep , '' said Gertrude Carleton . `` I 'm not going to get up at five o'clock and stay up . '' So the ladders were brought in from outside and put up in the stair-well , and with some difficulty everybody was brought safely up-stairs again . With the procrastination which was characteristic of the Barlow household , the new stairs failed to get built that day or the next either ; indeed it was nearly a week before a staircase was put in place , and as it was meant to be only temporary it was made of plain unpainted wood . But you will not be surprised to learn that it was not replaced by a more sightly affair until after the Barlows had returned to their city home .