You might fail in making the chair men drunk, or at any rate sufficiently drunk to allow them to be despoiled of their clothes; whereas you could have no difficulty in silencing a couple of chair men by a sudden attack--a sharp rap on the head with these bludgeons ought to settle that affair." "Quite so," Desmond agreed; "and while Mike and one of us were so employed, the other two might throw open the doors of the chair, and gag Godolphin before he was conscious of what was happening." "It all seems simple enough, Kennedy, and, if it were a citizen, one would think nothing of the undertaking.

But it is nothing short of high treason for us thus to make free with the person of the chief minister of England." "That is a matter that does not concern me at all, O'Neil.

If we were captured now, we should be executed for high treason with the others; and if we carried off Anne herself, they could not do much more to us.
"Now, it seems to me that if you are both agreed that we should carry out the plan, the first thing to be done is to arrange for horses; or, better still, for a light cart to carry the four of us.

I should think that Mike would, among his acquaintances, be able to hear of a man with a couple of fast horses and such a cart as we require, who would agree to drive us to the coast, arranging a change of horses on the way.

He could offer ten louis, which would be a sum that a man of that kind would be well satisfied with." "I will see to that, your honour.