Our duty is to watch, and not to fight.

You must lift up your voice, and shout as loud as you can, and then we must run to the gate.

There we can make a fight, till the rest join us.

But, whatever you do, do not shout until I tell you.

A false alarm would raise the whole garrison; and, if naught came of it, would make us a laughing stock." While they were talking, both were keeping a close lookout on the ground in front of them, and also to the right and left, for the watches were two hundred yards apart, and they had to make sure that no party of the enemy slipped unseen between them.