Then the order will be given by the man who has arranged all this, and the six galleys will put out together.
"One is to row to each of the forts to carry off the party that will have been engaged in silencing its cannon.

Our galley is to row to St.
Nicholas, and take off the twenty men I shall lead there.

There is no possibility of failure.

Everything has, you see, been arranged.

One of the overseers who is in the plot walked by my side as we returned from the port, and gave me the instructions, and all the others will have been told in the same way, or else by the guards in charge of them." The gang now broke up into little groups, talking excitedly over the unlooked for news, and exulting over the speedy advent of liberty.
Gervaise strolled carelessly to the window, and dropped out the white strip of stuff.