I was going to have a look at "Jacob's Ladder." Gently I lowered myself into the water.

Though the night was wild, the day had been warm and bright, and the water was not cold.

I struck out, and began to swim round the great walls which frowned above me.

I could see only three yards ahead; I had then good hopes of not being seen, as I crept along close under the damp, moss-grown masonry.

There were lights from the new part of the Castle on the other side, and now and again I heard laughter and merry shouts.