These, again, have bought over many of the guards, ours included, and tonight all will be ready for action.

Those not of our party will be killed without ceremony.

Duplicate keys have been made of all the padlocks of the fetters; the guards who are with us have each one of them, the others will have been slipped into the hands of one man in each gang as they returned tonight from work.

The overseers who are in the plot will, at midnight, go quietly round and unlock the doors, and remove the bars from the outside.

We have, therefore, only to overcome the eight or ten men who patrol the prison; and as we shall have the arms of the guards, some thirty in number, we shall make quick work of them.
"The two guards at the outside gates must, of course, be killed.
Duplicates of the keys have been made, and will be hidden in a spot known to some of our party, close to the gate.