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The Boy Scouts In Russia

CHAPTER IX
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The twine had brushed against the sentry's cheek.

But then a puff of wind carried it away, and the man went on, brushing at his cheek, thinking, perhaps, a moth had touched it.
One sharp tug of the twine.

That was the signal to Boris to go ahead.
His eyes strained on the window, Fred saw his cousin's figure appear on the sill, saw him climbing swiftly up a water pipe, and then saw him drop to the flat roof, hidden for the moment by a low parapet.

Then there was another period of agonized waiting, for again a sentry was to pass.

Fred used the brief interval of enforced inaction to loosen the rope and place it on the ground, tied to the loose end of the twine he took from his wrist, so that it would have a clear passage through the bushes.


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