Indeed, in one respect it rendered it more easy.

There were three of us to work at the heads of the rivets, and it certainly facilitated our getting clothes from the boatmen, besides rendering the journey much more pleasant than it would have been for one of us alone.
"On the other hand, it would have been impossible to carry out the escape from Spielberg in the manner I did, if I had had two officers with me in the cell.

We could not have hoped to obtain three uniforms, could hardly have expected all to slip by the sentry unnoticed.

Lastly, the three of us could not have got post horses.

Still, it is quite possible that we might have escaped in some other manner." "Then you have not the most remote idea where you will find your servant and horse ?" "Not the slightest.