7/11 At length this door turned on its hinges, and Goliath appeared, his clothes dripping with water. Luckily, the night is dark, it blows hard, and it pours with rain." "Then there is no suspicion ?" "None, master. The door of the cellar opens on the fields, just under the window of the lasses. When you whistled to let me know it was time, I crept out with a stool I had provided; I put it up against the wall, and mounted upon it; with my six feet, that made nine, and I could lean my elbows on the window-ledge; I took the shutter in one hand, and the haft of my knife in the other, and, whilst I broke two of the panes, I pushed the shutter with all my might." "And they thought it was the wind ?" "Yes, they thought it was the wind. |