At that hour Poona would be quiet, for the terror was so great that few people ventured into the street after nightfall.
When they approached the house on which the proclamation was fixed, they separated.

Harry went quietly to the corner of the street, a few yards from the spot where the soldier was marching up and down, and listened intently, peeping out from behind the wall whenever the sentry was walking in the other direction.

Presently he heard a smothered sound, and the dull thud of a falling body.
He ran out.

Abdool had crawled up to the other end of the sentry's beat, and taken his place in a doorway.

The sentry came up to within a couple of yards of him, and then turned.