We will make him to be alone also.
We cannot find out just now which of the four and twenty is a traitor.
But we will bind the whole four and twenty hand and foot, and then the traitor also will be helpless." Szilard began to perceive that this blind man was right in everything.
His words must be listened to, for the danger was close at hand, there was no time for hesitation.

So he quickly routed up all the halters in the mill and they set to work.
The blind giant laid the pandurs one by one across his knee and placing their hands behind their backs crosswise held them towards Szilard, who bound them fast.

Three and twenty of them felt nothing of all this and the four and twentieth who did feel it thought it just as well to go on feigning slumber, for had it been discovered that he was awake one grip of those enormous fists would have made of him a sleeper indeed--for ever more.
"Is your sword sharp, sir ?" enquired the blind man when this piece of work was done.
"Yes, and I have pistols likewise." "Test them, sir, for I suspect they have been tampered with." "What ?" "If ever, sir, you have pursued some wild beast, a bear or a buffalo, for instance, you know the rule surely: never rely upon any weapon which has not been freshly loaded by your own hand.

Let us take the loading out of your pistols.

It won't do to fire them off for we are lying in wait for big game and at such times one must keep very quiet." Szilard hearkened to the warning and drew the loading out of both his well charged pistols.