Chapter 720 A New Georgy-girl:>Ep16

I carefully made my way to the far end of the attic, quite a long walk, really when I was trying to be stealthy and silent, and eased into the landing and down to the ground level, again watching for all the squeaky stair-treads I remembered from my childhood. I went that way because the workshop had a wide wooden double carriage door on the side of the house which was padlocked closed, but there was a bolted wicket-gate in one leaf of the double doors, and that was my way out of the house. As far as I could tell, there was no way for them to patrol the entire perimeter of the house, it was too big for just a couple of men, so with luck they wouldn't see me if I stuck close to the walls; the windows were set higher than my height, so anyone looking out wouldn't be able to see me plastered to the wall right under them as I worked my way around to the front of the house unless they opened the window, leaned out, and looked down.