Also, lanterns might be shown at the back where the breach is, and men might shout there, as though preparing to attack.

That would draw them off.

Meanwhile Jeffrey Stokes and I would try our luck with the ladder and the kegs of powder--he to roll and I to fire when the time came, for being, as you have heard, a witch, I understand how to humour brimstone." Ten minutes later, and their plans were fixed.

Two hours later, and, in the midst of a raving gale, hidden by the pitchy darkness and the towering screen of the lifted drawbridge, Emlyn and the strong Jeffrey rolled the kegs of powder over planks laid across the moat, into the mouth of the big drain and twenty feet down it, till they lay under the gateway towers! Then, lying there in the stinking filth, they drew the spigots out of holes that they had made in them, and in their place set the slow-matches.

Jeffrey struck a flint, blew the tinder to a glow, and handed it to Emlyn.
"Now get you gone," she said; "I follow.