He is looking down the passage towards our room.

But it is impossible to pass him." La Tribe nodded, and moved softly to one of the lattices which lighted the room.

It might be possible to escape that way, by the parapet and the tiles.

But he found that the casement was set high in the roof, which sloped steeply from its sill to the eaves.

He passed to the other window, in which a little wicket in the lattice stood open.