The Fusilier and his friends were looking for me by the other entrance.
The attention of the men in the hall was distracted, and that gave me a chance.

There was nothing for it but the back door.

I slipped through it into a courtyard and almost tumbled over a tub of water.

I planted the thing so that anyone coming that way would fall over it.

A door led me into an empty stable, and from that into a lane.