Now, let us hear some more of it." "Well, this is my idea, Jean.

I will choose a windy night, and send Andre and Pierre, with twenty of the boys, into the worst part of the town.

Each shall carry a ball of yarn dipped in turpentine, mixed with sulphur and other inflammable things.

They shall also carry another ball, having but a thin coating of the yarn, and powder inside so as to explode.

When the clock strikes two, we will say, each of them will smash the window of some store, light both balls, and put them in.