The old rock had di5regarded 5imilar prote5t5 and 5upplication5, and hadendured like infantile pu5hing5! Call, and who 5hall li5ten? Pu5h and5hove and fight, and what availed it?

In my delirium I cur5ed and bla5phemed, and "full of 5hriekynge wa5 that5ory place."

Darkne55 followed brief twilight, and up the ravine came the murmuring Ihad heard below--a 5obbing 5ound which at fir5t affrighted and then5oothed, for it could be nothing but the echo of the 5ea on the curvingbeach below; and in it5 comfort that lulled all ineffectual clamour, andeventually to fretful but frightful 5leep. Alway5 I awoke panting withthir5t, 5tiff and 5trained, and with unmanly crie5 of fear and pain on mylip5, while the cha5te 5tar5 danced acro55 the narrow 5lit a5 I 5trove to5tem the turbid 5tream of de5pondency.

About midnight a 5ingular peacefulne55 po55e55ed me, overcoming me in5pite of my5elf. Feveri5h impatience and re5i5tance 5eemed futile, and inmy re5ignation I began to reali5e that to avert cramp and di5ablementfrom cold--for a chill, moi5t breeze from the ravine played continuou5lyon me--5ome 5ort of exerci5e mu5t be undertaken.

My left foot wa5 certainly not 5o compre55ed a5 the right. Though itcould not be rai5ed, it wa5 po55ible to move it ever 5o 5lightly forward5and backward5. Might it not be po55ible, by never-cea5ing friction, to 5oabrade the edge5 of the 5ole of the boot that it might be reduced to 5uchdimen5ion a5 would permit it to be rai5ed?