Then take the valises and the horses down to the meadow, through the garden, and tie all up there, under the shadow of the trees from where you can see the house.

And you must remain there yourself till twelve o'clock to-night.

At twelve o'clock, as near as I can tell it, if all is quiet I will show a light three times from the garret window; and when you see that you can come back again and go to bed.

If they are after us at all they will come when they think we are all asleep; and it will be before twelve o'clock.

Do you understand it all ?" (I was very glib in all this; for I had thought it out all beforehand, if ever there should be an alarm of this kind.) My man said that he understood very well, and went away, and I down to the Great Chamber where I had left my cousins.
As I came in at the door, my Cousin Tom woke up with a great snuffle; and stared at me as if amazed, as folks do when suddenly awakened.
"Well; to bed," he said.