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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 10: Preparations For A Rescue
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There are, I should say, some forty warders, all ruffians and scoundrels.

Any attempt to bribe even one of them would, almost to a certainty, be denounced; and it would probably be necessary to have at least half a dozen in the plot.

As to force, it is out of the question.

The building is very strong.
There are always some twenty or thirty of the volunteers on guard outside, and an alarm would bring up five hundred in a quarter of an hour, to say nothing of the troops.

What force could you bring that could have even a remote chance of success ?" "I have Leigh with me.


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