"I stood up and examined the rocky wall behind me.
so high that to climb it all was an obvious impossibility, and itwas equally impossible to make my way along the wet pathwithout leaving some tracks.
"I stood up and examined the rocky wall behind me. In yourpicturesque account of the matter, which I read with greatinterest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer.That was not literally true. presented
"But the tracks!" I cried. "I saw, with my own eyes, that two wentdown the path and none returned."