Well, this is one time that 'Bart pusson' is going to find an empty coop.

We'll get out, Neb, just as soon as it gets dark enough.

Hicks isn't likely to put on his extra guard for an hour yet, and the 'Red Light' bunch won't be fit for business much before midnight.

By that time we'll be in the sand hills, heading south, able to give them a run for their money--we'll have horses, too, if we can find them." The negro's eyes shone white.
"Fo' de Lawd's sake, Massa," he protested, "dat'd sho' be a hangin' job if ebber dey cotched us." Keith laughed, knocking out the ashes from his pipe.
"With an hour's start that will be the least of my troubles," he said, quietly..