We can lead them out, at once, if any point is hotly attacked; and it would prevent confusion, if the stockade were suddenly forced.

The enemy may be bringing up hundreds of ladders and, in the darkness, may get up close before they are noticed." "Do as you think best," the rajah said and, at once, went out and sent officers to bring in three hundred of the men; and also, at Harry's suggestion, to tell the others that, when the rajah's horn sounded, all were to leave the stockade and make at once for the entrance through the wall.
Another half hour passed.

Even Harry was conscious, now, that there was a low dull sound in the air.
"I cannot think what they are doing," the rajah, who was now standing on the wall, close to the gate, said to Harry.

"However numerous they may be, they should have moved as noiselessly as we did, when we went out to attack them." "I don't think that it will be long before we know, now, Rajah." He had scarcely spoken, when there was a loud shout from the palisade in front of them.

It was on this side that the men had been posted so thickly, as it was of all things necessary to defend this to the last, in order to enable those at other points to make their way to the gate.