The chances are that the boatmen, finding that they are no losers by the affair, would make no complaint to the authorities; but even if they did, we should be far beyond their reach by that time.

All we have got to do is to choose a really dark night, with wind and rain.
"The first job to be done is to get the heads off these rivets.

I have examined them carefully.

They are roughly done, and I don't fancy that the iron is very hard; and our knives will, I think, make a comparatively short job of it." "We could not work at night," Ritzer said.

"The sentry in front would hear the noise." "I think of sawing the heads off," Fergus said.