y climb at the point where the wing jutted out from the
main wall of the building, the two walls forming an angle.

A stream of water was pouring down the wall from somewhere off the roof;
and I took a hearty draught from this, which greatly refreshed me. I
then renewed my attempt; and found to my great satisfaction that, though
the labour was still severe, I was able to make slow but steady progress
by bracing myself into the angle between the two walls with my arms and
knees.

In this way I gradually worked my way up the wall, until I arrived at a
point where a bold moulding--called, I believe, a string-course--ran
horizontally along the wall. I continued my climb until my feet rested
upon this moulding, which constituted quite a firm foot-hold compared
with what I had hitherto been able to obtain.

I was now about five-and-twenty feet from the ground; and had it been
light I should have been able to see over the wall; but as it was I
could distinguish nothing but the indistinct masses of the trees, and,
among them, a few greyish objects which looked to me like tomb-stones.

The next thing was to pass along the face of the wing-wall to the point
where it joined the boundary-wall of the courtyard; and the sooner this
journey was accomplished the better; for the muscles of my hands were
beginning to feel cramped and nerveless from the extraordinary strain
which had been put upon them. I accordingly set out on my dangerous
way; and, with the aid of the string-course, got on better than I
expected; but my strength was going so rapidly that, by the time I had
accomplished about a quarter of the distance, it was all I could do to
support myself. I had no choice, however, but still to push on; and I
persevered a short time longer; when, just as I felt that I was
incapable of further effort, when my nerveless fingers were actually
relaxing their hold upon the slight irregularities in the surface of the
wall, and I felt that I must go helplessly crashing down again to the
ground, I distinguished, within a yard of me, on my right, a dark cavity
in the face of the wall; and the remembrance at once flashed upon me
that I had noticed when crossing the yard in the morning, without paying
any attention to it at the moment, a large window in this part of the
wall. One more feeble but despairing effort enabled me to reach the
opening; and with a frame quivering with exhaustion, and an incoherent
thanksgiving upon my lips, I fl