However, as a last resource, this might be attempted.
Two days later Adolphe again returned, and was obliged to confess in answer to Harry's inquiries that he feared the sailors as a body would not join in the attempt.
"I can hardly blame them, monsieur.

For though I myself would risk everything, and some of the others would do so too, it is a terrible thing for men with wives and families to brave the anger of these monsters.

They would think nothing of putting us all to death.
It isn't the fighting we are afraid of, though the odds are heavy against us, but it's the vengeance they would take afterwards, whether we happened to win or whether we didn't." "I cannot blame them," Harry said.

"As you say, even if they succeeded there would be a terrible vengeance for it afterwards.

No; if the girls are to be rescued it must be by some other way.