He drew up his pistol, examined it, pointed it towards that point in the defile where the first man would appear.

And proclaim thou among mankind the pilgrimage they shall come unto thee on foot and on any lean mount, coming from every deep defile.

A few moments' scrambling brought them to the top of the ledge the path then passed between a narrow defile, where only one could walk at a time, till suddenly they came to a rift or chasm more than a yard in breadth, and beyond which lay a pile of rocks, separate from the rest of the ledge, standing full thirty feet high, with its sides steep and perpendicular as those of a castle.