It leaned obliquely, as if left in a hurry.

Fitzgerald took it up, and bridged between the box and the window ledge.

Breitmann gave him a leg up, and in another moment he was examining the brick wall of the great chimney under a circular white patch of light.

A dozen rows of bricks had been cleverly loosened.

There were also evidences of chalk marks, something on the order of a diagram; but it was rather uncertain, as it had been redrawn four or five times.