A dry corner being found, the barrels were placed in it, and carefully concealed with billets of wood and coals, so as to avert suspicion in case of search.

This, with other arrangements, occupied the greater part of the night, and the commencement of the important undertaking was deferred till the morrow, when an increase of their party was anticipated.
Throughout the whole of the day no one stirred forth.

The windows were kept closed; the doors locked; and, as no fires were lighted, the house had the appearance of being uninhabited.

In the course of the morning they underwent considerable alarm.

Some mischievous urchins having scaled the garden wall, one of them fell within it, and his cries so terrified his playmates that they dropped on the other side, and left him.