This was all very fine, but when we came to break the gate, we could not do it.

We moved around an angle of the wall and found a low bastion--eight feet high without--ten or twelve within.

Denny prepared to scale it, and we got ready to follow.

By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within.

There was instantly a banging of doors and a shout.