He prayed earnestly for deliverance from the place in which he was confined.

He felt that he did not deserve to be there; and though it was a very comfortable place, and the boys fared as well as he wished to fare, still it seemed to him like a prison.

He was unjustly detained; and he not only prayed to be delivered, but he resolved to work out his own deliverance at the first opportunity.
Knowing that whatever he had would be taken from him, he resolved by some means to keep possession of the twenty dollars he had about him.

He had always kept his money in a secret place in his jacket to guard against accident, and the officers who had searched him had not discovered it.

But now his clothes would be changed.