"Yes ?" "He found the house fronting a narrow alley, and the sixth of the row.
The front wall was destroyed, but the two side walls and the back wall still stood.

Three feet from the floor and two feet from the right-hand corner the letters were hidden in that inner wall.

Feversham dug into the mud bricks with his knife; he made a hole wherein he could slip his hand.

The wall was thick; he dug deep, stopping now and again to feel for the packet.

At last his fingers clasped and drew it out; as he hid it in a fold of his jibbeh, the light of a lantern shone upon him from behind." Ethne started as though she had been trapped herself.