CHAPTER 9: An Escape From Newgate.
After being allowed to remain an hour at the table, the prisoners were again marched off to their cells.
"I wish we had Mike with us," Desmond said, as he and his comrades discussed the possibility of escape.

"He is a shrewd fellow, and would probably be allowed greater freedom in moving about the prison than we are; but I was sure that we should see no more of him after we left Harwich.
"Of course, the first question is, are we to try bribery, or to work our way out of this cell ?" "I think that it would be dangerous to try bribery," O'Sullivan remarked.

"Our turnkey is a sour-faced rascal.

I am convinced that, if we were to try to bribe him, he would denounce us at once.

Not from any principle, you know, but because he would think that it would pay him better to do so, and so obtain promotion and reward, rather than to accept our money and run the risk of being detected and hanged." "I don't blame him," O'Neil said.