death was far preferable to the evils that impended over me, I was not terrified by the apparent danger. I fastened the end of the curtain to the iron across the window, and with a courage desperation only could inspire, ventured from it, holding firmly by the kind of rope I had made.
My weight carried me quick down to the first knot: Here my hands were stopped, and it was with the utmost hazard I freed them;—but, by the time I reached the second knot, they were too feeble to support me, and I fell from a great height, but most providentially on a bed of earth, fresh turned up;—and though stunned with the fall, I soon found I had broken no limbs, and in a short time got on my feet, and made towards a door that led into the wood. I had here another difficulty to encounter, to get over the wall, but it was not very high, and I accomplished it, though not without some injury to my person.
I was now in the wood, unacquainted with any path-way, and exposed to a thousand
