It will be best that they should make the arrangements for the firing of the signal beacon.
We might even station one of them in a village there, under the pretence that he had been knocked up with the cold and hardship, and was desirous of staying quietly with his friends.

He would watch at night and could sleep by day, as his friends would waken him at once, if any troops passed along." The same afternoon, one of the men-at-arms prepared to start for a village, eight miles beyond the hill.
"There is no rising ground near it," he said to Francois, "that could well be seen from the top of the hill here; but about half a mile away from the village there is an old tower.

It is in ruins, and has been so ever since I can remember.

I have often climbed to its top, when I was a boy.

At this time of year, there is no chance of anyone visiting the place.