"There are plenty of clothes here, and there is a man who has often helped when there were to be private theatricals." The transformation was soon completed, and when he looked at himself in a glass Fred had to laugh.

His clothes were those of a Prussian peasant, and a few very slight changes in his appearance had been made by the man to whom Vladimir had spoken.

They worked wonders, and Fred decided that he could go anywhere in Prussia now with impunity.
"Is it safe for you to leave the house ?" he asked Vladimir.
"Yes, for they think that I am harmless," said the old man.
"I wish to know how to open the door of the tunnel from the outside," said Fred.

"But I think it would be unsafe to go there directly.

It will be better for you to start out and get there as if you had gone by chance.