"I was right, you see.

They are going to try to smoke or burn us out.

Now I think it's time to give them a lesson." "Look, look!" The exclamation was excited by a sudden glare of light, on the other side of the stables.
"The scoundrels have set fire to the stables!" Shillito said.
"What shall we do--make a sally ?" Caister asked.

"I am ready for it, if you think right." "No," Reuben said, "they would only shoot us down as we come out.
They must guess that some of us are up at this window, or they would try to carry the horses off, instead of destroying them.
"I only wish we were on the poor beasts' backs.

We would go for them, though they were twice as many.
"I don't see the others now--they must have gone round to the other side of the house." Scarcely had Reuben taken up his station, at one of the loopholes behind, than he again saw the dark figures.