The house, of which the bedroom occupied by Charlie formed part, was elsewhere two stories higher; this room jutting out, alone, into the angle of the wall.

The rest of the suite of rooms were in the house itself, but access could be obtained to this room through the window, which looked on to the terrace of the wall.

Charlie's lieutenants always took pains to place men upon whom they could thoroughly rely as sentries, on this terrace.
One night, a fortnight after the events which have been described, Charlie was asleep on his bed, on the flats above his room.

On one side the house rose straight beside it.

On two others was the fall to the valley, on the fourth side was the wall, along which two sentries were pacing to and fro.