Now, it is absolutely certain that they will both of them be condemned, for they have a personal enemy on the committee of public safety, and they will be murdered, unless we can get them out; and I and my brother Leigh, whom you all know, have come for that purpose." "Well, captain, you can count upon both of us, heart and soul.

But I don't see how it is going to be done.

The prison is a strong place, and well guarded.

I have no doubt that we could count on getting twenty stout men, along the wharf, but that would not be much use.

They have more than that on guard and, before we could get into the prison, they would come swarming down, any number of them." "We have forty young fellows from my neighbourhood, who will by tomorrow be hidden away in the wood, a mile and a half higher up the river." "That will be a help, sir; but even with two hundred we should not be able to do much." "We shall have plenty of time to talk it over, afterwards.