Is the gate through the other wall shut ?" "Yes, sahib, it is always closed at sunset.

Except where the road comes up to the gate, there is only one place where the rock projects at the foot of the wall, and there is a possibility of climbing down.

That was where I had intended we should cross the wall.

The height is but twenty feet, there, and I have another rope of that length.

There are no sentries placed, except over the gate.
"It is quite possible that, even there, there is none tonight.
There is no order among these fellows, as there is among the Company's troops and, as there is no enemy near, they think that such a watch is unnecessary; and if any have been sent there, they are pretty sure to have gone to the huts, to talk over the news from Delhi.