The missile sped true; over and over it twisted in the air, and, catching the soldier with a horrid thud in the back, laid him low.
"Hurrah!" cried Philip.
"Hurrah!" cried Jack, peering down from the roof as the others bound the two wounded men with ropes.

It was quickly done, and they were hauled into the stable and secured safely therein, and old Digger told off to watch them and mind them as well as he might.
"Now we can go ahead," was Matthew's comment, grimly uttered, as he opened the door.

Philip was for accompanying him, but Matthew said no.
"In a minute or two I will be back with your sister," he added.

"I want to settle the other man alone.

I have a few scores to pay off." He sprang up the stairs three at a bound, grasping his iron bar firmly, and at last came to Barbara's landing.