In either case I consider that we are safe for a time, but sooner or later our fate is sealed unless aid comes to us, and therefore I propose that one of you should tonight try and bear a message to the Lech.

We can lower him down by the bell rope from this window in the angle where the tower touches the church.

Keeping round by the church he will be in deep shadow until he reaches the other end, and will then be close to the ruins of the village.

Before morning he could reach our camp." "I will undertake it myself, sir, if you will allow me," the sergeant said, while the other men also volunteered for the duty.
"You shall try first, sergeant," Malcolm said.

"It will be dangerous work, for as the news of our being here spreads the peasants will be coming in from all quarters.