Along that roof I crept with bared feet, till I reached another roof, the battlements of which at the lowest point were not more than twenty feet from the ground.

Thence I clambered down to a window cornice five or six feet lower, and jumped, at the risk of my limbs, the remaining distance of fifteen or sixteen feet to the soft sod beneath.

I ran with all haste, took my stand under Aunt Dorothy's window, and whistled softly.

The window casing opened and I heard the great bunch of keys jingling and clinking against the stone wall as Aunt Dorothy paid them out to me by means of a cord.

After I had secured the keys I called in a whisper to Lady Crawford and directed her to leave the cord hanging from the window.