CHAPTER 8: The Capture Of Saumur.
The arrangements being now completed, Leigh and his band lay down in a thicket near the bank of the river, and slept for some hours.
At one o'clock in the morning Leigh rose and, with his three followers, started for the village.

It was but twenty minutes' walk.

Not a soul was stirring, not a light visible in any window.
They found that three or four boats were lying by the bank.

Leigh chose the smallest of these and, loosening the head rope from the post to which it was fastened, took his place in her with the others.

Accustomed as he was to rowing, from his childhood, he soon reached the opposite bank.