He stumbled again and fell, but as he fell he struck against the sharp corner of the wall.

If he could find an entrance into the garden beyond that wall! He turned off the road to the left and ran across a field, keeping close along the side of the wall.

He came to another corner and turned to the right.

As he turned he heard voices in the road.

The pursuers had stopped and were searching with the lantern for traces of his passage.