You may be sure that, as soon as it is light, there will be many sharp eyes watching the hillside, all along here." The man who had come up with them had already wrapped himself in the blanket he had brought with him, had crawled in among the bushes, and was, as they could hear by his heavy breathing, already sound asleep.
After a time Oswald said that, as they had nothing more to settle, he would try and get a few hours' rest.

There was not the slightest fear of surprise, and Roger and he were not long before they were both sound asleep.

Oswald woke two or three times and, at first sign of dawn, shook Roger.
"You had better wake the ladies, in a few minutes, Roger, and get them over the crest.

Let their man, as soon as he has seen them, start at once, keeping along behind the ridge, and warn him not to go down into the valley until he is fully a mile beyond Parton.

Tell him to look carefully along the road, before he begins to descend, and to see that it is clear.