"Your making off in that Austrian uniform, at the only moment when such a thing could be done, was certainly a masterly stroke." "So was the taking of the post horses," Stauffen agreed, "and your getting a disguise from the postmaster.

I should like to have seen the Austrian's look of surprise, when he got his uniform back again.
"I am afraid that your adventures do not afford us any hint for getting away from here.

Even you will admit that three Austrian uniforms could not be secured, and the tale by which you procured the post horses would hardly hold good in the case of three." "No, if we get away at all it must be done in an entirely different manner.

The place is not so difficult to get out of as Spielberg was, for with patience we could certainly manage to cut off the rivet heads of the bars.

But I don't see, at present, how we could cross this wide moat, with a sentry pacing up and down thirty feet above us; nor climb up the brick wall on the other side, without making a noise.