You had best lie down by the foot of the wall.

Anyone who passes will think that you are in a drunken sleep.

I will creep forward and possess myself of the steel caps of two of these drunkards, and if I can get a couple of cloaks so much the better." There was no difficulty about the caps, and by dint of unbuckling the cloaks and rolling their wearers gently over, Walter succeeded at last in obtaining two of them.

He also picked up a sword for Ralph--his own still hung in its sheath--and then he joined his companion, and the two putting on the steel caps and cloaks walked quietly to the gate.

There were none on guard, and they issued unmolested into the town.