The guns do not matter, but the pistols are good ones.

And, if there is an alarm given, we may have to fight.

Besides, it is not impossible that we may come across a tiger, as we go along.

I vote that, when we have secured the sentry, we pay the officer a visit." Surajah nodded.

He was quite ready to agree to anything that Dick might suggest, and felt a strong desire to repossess himself of his arms, for it seemed to him that it would be a humiliation to go back without them.
"Of course," Dick went on, "if the sentry gives the alarm, before we can secure him, we must give up part of our plan; for, in that case, we should have to bolt.