There are the two coffins, looking very heavy and solid, lying in state but unguarded.
The crowd draws a breath of astonishment.

"Are they going to wrench the tops off with hatchet and chisel ?" Bap, rap, rap; wrench, rap, wrench.

Ah! the cases come open.
"Well kept ?" asks the leader flippantly.
"Oh, yes," is the reply.

And then all laugh.
One of the lookers-on pushes up and gets a glimpse within.
"What is it ?" ask the other idlers.
He tells one quietly.
"What did he say ?" ask the rest, one of another.
"He says they are not dead men, but new muskets"-- "Here, clear out!" cries an officer, and the loiterers fall back and by and by straggle off.
The exiles?
What became of them, do you ask?
Why, nothing; they were not troubled, but they never all came together again.

Said a chief-of-police to Major Shaughnessy years afterward: "Major, there was only one thing that kept your expedition from succeeding--you were too sly about it.