We can head it up, and make it watertight.

How do you mean to get into the town?
I should have thought that they were likely to be seized." "So they would be," John said.

"I shall hide them in some bushes at the foot of the walls, at the side of the town facing the river.

There are only a few sentries there.

Then, when it is light, I shall go in and tell my cousin; and get him, after dark, to lower a rope from the wall.