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He took off his heavy boots and flung them one by one over the wall

Then he pulled off his coat at the cost of some pain and an added

weakness, for the coat was stuck to his wounds and had roughly staunched

the his shirt There was all the

more need, then, for hurry He stood up, jale

of the wall, stretched out his ar with his

elbows and hands, and then bending his knees crossed his legs tailor

fashion, and set the soles of his stockinged feet firainst the

bricks on each side He was thus seated as it were upon nothing, but

retaining his position by the pressure of his ar this position, very slowly, very

laboriously, he worked hiain his breath, now and then slipping back an inch But he mounted

towards the top, and after a while the back of his head no longer

touched the bricks His head was above the coping of the wall

It was at this ain, just at the corner