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I paced the floor with feverish i by thisthe sharp pangs of hunger, I slashed a bit of leather froht chew a dry bone Inbitter taunts at the unseen upper world Exhausted by such useless frenzy, I would sink prone to the floor, every nerve unstrung, lying there panting in helplessness until returning strength again sent me back and forth in that awful tramp from wall to wall I perceived that the strain of that horrible haunted silence was driving ain did I break fro God for mercy Yet I arose without rest, without peace At last I sank weakly down against the wall and lay tre eyes

I had coer to supportscenes of hellish ingenuity Ah! look! see! yonder coray face floating against the wall! Away, you foul fiend! I arows! It is as large as aup until they e, unnatural radiance over the cave I is about ood God! do my eyes actually look upon the day once more--the sweet, sweet, blessed day? Surely it is but a drea down fro so that I was co doard ht, now in the radiance, anon in the shadoisting and turning like a great snake, a grass rope steadily dropped ring by ring until its loosened end coiled on the stone floor I saw it, never believing the testi hand had actually closed upon it Then, with the touch in ushed froave way, and I was Geoffrey Benteen once more A cautious whisper pierced the silence

"If you reth to mount the rope quickly?"