At the end of that time they told me to come along with them.

I had, of course, taken the cords off my legs when I had got my hands free, and I followed them, wondering what was to come next.

I was taken to the door of the convent, and there I saw a party of French troopers, to whom the monks handed me over.

I mounted behind one of them, and was taken to Marshal Tesse's camp near Lerida, and a couple of days afterward sent back to Saragossa.
"I didn't stop long in the prison there, for the next day the people rose, turned the French from the citadel, and opened the prison doors and let out all the prisoners.

They made a good deal of me, as I was the only Englishman there, supplied me with money and clean clothes, and provided me with a guide and a mule to take me by round about byroads so that I should avoid the French army.