Some persons were working at the front door with a key.

They seemed to be exercising due caution, and soon the door was open.
They came to the door of his cell.

For a long time it seemed to baffle them, but at last it yielded, and the door opened.
"Who are you ?" asked the prisoner, as three dark forms appeared before him.
"Friends," a voice which he recognized as Mr.Edward Cheeseman's whispered.

"We have come to liberate you." He was led from the jail, and then, by the dim light of the stars, he recognized William Drummond, Edward Cheeseman and Mr.Lawerence.
"There is a ship in the harbor ready to sail for Boston," said Mr.
Lawerence.

"You will go aboard of her and escape." "Can I see my mother and sister before I go ?" "They are waiting on the beach," Drummond answered.
Thanking his liberators, he followed them from the jail to the beach.