1 I know it so well, as if a great hand of fire wrote it on the wall.
2 At last we reached the wall of the churchyard, which we climbed over.
3 I got a ladder myself, and crossing the wall, dropped down on the other side.
4 It contains in all some twenty acres, quite surrounded by the solid stone wall above mentioned.
5 I shall not remain alone with them; I shall try to scale the castle wall farther than I have yet attempted.
6 It is surrounded by a high wall, of ancient structure, built of heavy stones, and has not been repaired for a large number of years.
7 As I got through the belt of trees I saw a white figure scale the high wall which separates our grounds from those of the deserted house.
8 So we locked the tomb and came away, and got over the wall of the churchyard, which was not much of a task, and drove back to Piccadilly.
9 The mist was spreading, and was now close up to the house, so that I could see it lying thick against the wall, as though it were stealing up to the windows.
10 I knew I must reach the body for the key, so I raised the lid, and laid it back against the wall; and then I saw something which filled my very soul with horror.
11 The great box was in the same place, close against the wall, but the lid was laid on it, not fastened down, but with the nails ready in their places to be hammered home.
12 It seems to me, that our first step should be to ascertain whether all the rest remain in the house beyond that wall where we look to-day; or whether any more have been removed.
13 The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse.
14 Outside the house came the sound of a pistol-shot; the glass of the window was shattered with a bullet, which, ricochetting from the top of the embrasure, struck the far wall of the room.
15 Whilst we were talking one came running and breathlessly gasped out that the body of Skinsky had been found inside the wall of the churchyard of St. Peter, and that the throat had been torn open as if by some wild animal.
16 I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
17 But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.
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