ung my body forward, and lay, breathless
and half-fainting, partly in and partly out of the unglazed window.

After recovering myself a little, I raised myself into a somewhat more
secure and comfortable position, and took a good look round me.

It was still as dark as ever--a circumstance at which I greatly
rejoiced, since it would still take a considerable amount of time to
make good my escape--but my eyes had by this time become so accustomed
to the darkness that I was able to discern with some degree of clearness
such objects as happened to be in my immediate vicinity; and the first
thing I noticed was that there was another window at no great distance
from me, but it was pierced in the _end_ wall of the building, and
consequently overlooked the piece of ground which I took to be a
cemetery. The next thing which attracted my attention was a sort of
ledge about a foot wide on the inner side of the wall, which had
apparently, at some time or other in the history of the building,
supported a floor. This ledge seemed to offer an easy and safe approach
to the other window; and I at once scrambled in through the opening
wherein I was perched, and, lowering myself cautiously down on the
inside, soon had the satisfaction of finding my feet firmly planted on
the ledge. Somewhat restored in strength, and my nerves steadied by my
short rest, I set forward once more; and at length, without much
difficulty, gained the other window.

Peering anxiously out through it, to see what facilities might exist for
enabling me to effect a descent, I was overjoyed to find that the time-
worn wall was covered with a thick growth of ivy. A descent by means of
this was, after my perilous climb and passage along the face of the
wall, a mere trifle; and in a couple of minutes more I was standing,
safe and sound, in the burial-ground, and _outside_ the boundaries of my
prison. I wasted no time in looking about me; but rapidly crossing the
enclosure, and stumbling over the graves as I went, I soon reached a
high railing, which was easily surmounted, when I found myself in a dark
and lonely road, bounded on one side by a wall and on the other by a
steep descent thickly planted with trees.

Pausing here for a moment, I rapidly recalled to mind the route by which
I had arrived at the barracks on the previous day, and was by this means
enabled to decide upon the direction which I ought to take in order to
reach the harbour. This point settled