Why couldn't we rescue Lord Tottenham ?' Lord Tottenham is the old gentleman who walks over the Heath every day in a paper collar at three o'clock--and when he gets halfway, if there is no one about, he changes his collar and throws the dirty one into the furze-bushes.
Dicky said, 'Lord Tottenham's all right--but where's the deadly peril ?' And we couldn't think of any.

There are no highwaymen on Blackheath now, I am sorry to say.

And though Oswald said half of us could be highwaymen and the other half rescue party, Dora kept on saying it would be wrong to be a highwayman--and so we had to give that up.
Then Alice said, 'What about Pincher ?' And we all saw at once that it could be done.
Pincher is very well bred, and he does know one or two things, though we never could teach him to beg.

But if you tell him to hold on--he will do it, even if you only say 'Seize him!' in a whisper.
So we arranged it all.

Dora said she wouldn't play; she said she thought it was wrong, and she knew it was silly--so we left her out, and she went and sat in the dining-room with a goody-book, so as to be able to say she didn't have anything to do with it, if we got into a row over it.
Alice and H.O.were to hide in the furze-bushes just by where Lord Tottenham changes his collar, and they were to whisper, 'Seize him!' to Pincher; and then when Pincher had seized Lord Tottenham we were to go and rescue him from his deadly peril.