No one would be
likely to go into my room during the day, and if he did, he would not
expect to find me there, as I am generally about the place. In that
way, I could get out enough stones to render it an easy job to finish
it, after I was locked up. A spear head is as good a thing, to help me
prize them out, as one could wish for."
"Very well, Father. Then we had better settle that you shall get out
in that way. Now, shall we go round on the outside, and help you?"
"No; I don't say but that your help would make it easier to get the
stones out, without making a noise. Still, your going round might be
noticed."
"Well then, Father, shall we seize and gag the sentry? We have done
such a thing before, successfully."
"No, that wouldn't do, Dick. The guard house is hard by, and the
slightest noise would destroy us all. Besides, as they have not many
sentries posted up here, they relieve guard every hour, so that the
thing would be discovered in no time.
"No; when I get out I will creep along noiselessly by the wall. There
are houses in the yard almost all along, and though the sentry would
not be likely to see me, in the shade of the wall, I will take care to
cross the open spaces when his back is turned.
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