upwards spasmodically in a desperate effort to redress himself. Finding that useless, he deliberately turned over on his side, from this on to his knees, and so upon all fours, with the chair still tightly bound to him and riding him like a castle.
Having attained that honourable position— which is by all the dogmas of all the Universities the original attitude of our remote ancestors—he made a discovery.
In this native posture he was capable of progression, of progression with the chair burdening his back like the shell of a tortoise, and with his legs dragged numbly after him, but still of progression, for he could put one hand before the other after the fashion of a wounded bear, and so drag the remainder of his person in their wake.
In this fashion, as the light gradually broadened on the filthy and deserted apartment. Professor Higginson began an odyssey painful and slow all over the floor of his prison. He inspected its utmost corners in search of something sharp wherewith to cut the cord, but nothing sharp was to be found.
In this fashion Professor Higginson began an odyssey.
It was broad daylight by the time he had completed his circumnavigation and detailed survey. In the half light he had hoped
