He's--he's safe away, by now, anyway," he blubbered, in self-justification of the confession which agony had wrung from him.

"All you'll get is the--the--" And, the pain having eaten into his very brain, he yelled incoherently.
Ten minutes later, Milo Standish sought out his sister, in the upper room whither she had fled, in fear, to escape from the racket of Roke's outcries.
"Listen!" he jabbered boyishly, in utter excitement.

"Brice made him tell how Rodney got out! How d'you s'pose?
One of the old panels, in the music room, slides back, and there's a flight of stone steps down to a cellar that's right alongside our regular cellar, with only a six inch cement-and-lath wall between.

It leads out, to the tunnel.

Right at that turn where the old-time shoring is.