My staff officer's uniform, or your scarlet, would lead to our arrest at the first village we came to.
"Besides, before this news one was willing to wait contentedly, for a time, till some good opportunity presented itself.

Now that we have such an unexpected offer of assistance, the sooner we get out of the place the better." The next morning they went out into the courtyard of the prison.
The soldiers who had been captured with them were walking about in groups; but the sentry who accompanied the two British officers led them through these, and took them up to the top of the wall surrounding the prison.
"Messieurs," he said, "when the others are shut up you can go where you please, but my orders are that you are not to communicate with your soldiers." He then fell back some distance, and left them free to wander about on the wall.
From this point they had a view over the city.

Bayonne was a strongly fortified place, standing on the junction of the Nive and Adour, and on the south side of the latter river, two miles from its mouth.

The Nive ran through the town, and its waters supplied the ditches of the encircling wall and bastions.

The prison was situated on the Nive, at some three or four hundred yards from the spot where it entered the Adour.
"I should say this quite decides it," Terence said, when they had made the circuit of the walls, upon which sentries were placed at short intervals.