If he could not succeed in drawing back the bolts, his capture was certain.
No. 5.
THE CHASE AFTER PEACE—MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
He drew a jemmy from his coat-pocket, and getting a leverage from the side of the trap, he drew back one bolt; he was enabled now to raise the trap on one side.
He sprang up from the bales of goods and contrived to pass through the opening. This done he closed it.
He now found himself on the leads of a flat roof.
The building was immensely high, as most structures of this nature usually are.
As far as the eye could reach the chimneys and roofs of the houses of the city lay before him like one vast panorama.
He stood on a dizzy height, from which there did not appear to be any means of escape.