He removed nearly all his clothing and tried to press his head and shoulders between the bar and the wall.

His head, which was of the long narrow type, so common in the scholar, would have gone through the aperture, had it not been for his hair which was long, and which grew uncommonly thick.

His shoulders were very thick and broad and they, too, halted him.

He drew back and felt a keen thrill of disappointment.
But he was a boy who usually clung tenaciously to an idea, and, sitting down, he concentrated his mind upon the plan that he had formed.

By and by a possible way out came to him.