Fortunately no person was there; but Edwin found it full of spare arms, with two or three vacant couches in different corners, where he supposed the officers on guard occassionally reposed; several watch-cloaks lay on the floor.

He readily apprehended the use he might make of this circumstance, and throwing one of them over his shoulders climbed to a large embrasure in the wall, and, forcing himself through it, dropped to a declivity on the other side, which shelved down to the cliff, wherein he saw the square tower.
He had scarcely alighted on firm ground, when a sentinel, followed by two others presented pikes, approached him, and demanded the word.
"Montjoy!" was his reply.

"Why leap the embrasure ?" said one.

"Why not enter by the postern ?" demanded another.

The conversation of the officers had given him a hint, on which he had formed his answer.
"Love, my brave comrades," replied he, "seldom chooses even ways.