Here goes, anyhow." There was a scuffling of feet, and the lantern began to come steadily down the side of the wall.

Then with a light spring he came on to the barrel, and from there to the earth.
"It was easy to follow him," he said, drawing on his stockings and boots.

"Tiles were loosened the whole way along, and in his hurry he had dropped this.

It confirms my diagnosis, as you doctors express it." The object which he held up to me was a small pocket or pouch woven out of colored grasses and with a few tawdry beads strung round it.

In shape and size it was not unlike a cigarette-case.