Andrea Mantegna paintings

Andrea Mantegna paintings
Arthur Hughes paintings
"It is the wooden-legged man."
"Quite so. But there has been someone else -- a very able and efficient ally. Could you scale that wall, Doctor?"
I looked out of the open window. The moon still shone brightiy on that angle of the house. We were a good sixty feet from the ground, and, look where I would, I could see no foothold, nor as much as a crevice in the brickwork.
"It is absolutely impossible," I answered.
"Without aid it is so. But suppose you had a friend up here who lowered you this good stout rope which I see in the corner, securing one end of it to this great hook in the wall. Then, I think, if you were an active man, you might swarm up, wooden leg and all. You would depart, of course, in the same fashion, and your ally would draw up the rope, untie it from the