The dog was having a very easy time with the abject villain over whom he was mounting guard, and could well undertake a little more than he had at present on his hands.
"Fetch him here, Julius," called Jeffreys, giving Corporal an additional grip; "come here, you fellow, along with the dog." The fellow had nothing for it but to obey; and in a couple of minutes he was lying across the body of Corporal, while Julius stood fiercely over them both.
"Come here, boy," called Jeffreys next to Percy; "let me take off those cords." Percy groped his way to him.
"What are you going to do with me ?" he gasped.
"Loose you; and if you're half a man you'll help me tie up these brutes.
Come on--watch them there, Julius.

Why, you're blindfolded, too, and how frightfully tight you're corded!" "I've been like that since twelve o'clock." A few moments sufficed to unfasten the captive's arms and clear his eyes.
"Now you," said Jeffreys, indicating the topmost of Julius's captives with his toe, "put your hands behind your back!" The fellow obeyed hurriedly; he had had quite enough of Julius's attentions already to need more.
Jeffreys and Percy between them lashed first his wrists together, and then his elbows tightly to his sides.

Then they secured his feet and knees in the same manner.
"He'll do--let him go, Julius," and prisoner Number 1 was rolled over, to make room for Number 2 to undergo a similar process of pinioning.
It was fortunate that the hay-cart below, of which and its owner Jeffreys and Julius had already taken possession at their leisure, had been liberally provided with cord, or their supply would have been inadequate to the strain put upon it.
At last, however, Corporal and his friend were as securely tied up as they themselves could have done it, and dragged into the shed.

It was pitch dark, and they neither of them at first perceived a third occupant of the tenement in the person of their fellow-conspirator, who was lying, bound like themselves, on the floor, where for an hour at least he had been enjoying the sweets of solitary meditation.
"Now, Julius," said Jeffreys, when his three guests were duly deposited, "you'll have to watch them here till I come back.

Hold your tongues, all of you, or Julius will trouble you.