We shall manage to get all our men on duty, tomorrow evening.

Our sergeant is a good fellow and, if he guesses anything, will hold his tongue; for I have heard him say, more than once, that it is monstrous that you should be kept a prisoner.
"Therefore you need not be afraid of them.

They will take care to keep their eyes shut.

I shall be on sentry duty here, and will get the disguises up, and a rope.

When you have got down I shall let the rope drop, and you will carry it off and take it away with you; thus there will be no evidence where you descended.
"Here are two sharp files, with which you can cut through the bars of your window, and remove some of them; then it will not be known whether you escaped that way, or down the stairs; and the men on sentry in the courtyard at the bottom cannot be blamed because, for aught the governor will know, you may have gone out through this window into the other courtyard, and got over the wall on that side; so they would have no proof as to which set of men were negligent.
"No doubt we shall all be talked to, and perhaps kept in the guardroom a few days, but that won't hurt us; and soldiers are scarce enough, so they will hardly keep ten or twelve men long from duty.