THE ESCAPE Shortly after the meal was over, the brigands rose.

The boys were again bound, and were laid down on the ground near the fire.

One of the brigands then took his seat beside them, and the others, rolling themselves in their cloaks, were soon asleep at the fire.

The boys, tired as they were by the long and fatiguing day through which they had passed, were some time getting off to sleep.

Indeed, with their arms bound by their side, the only way of doing so was by lying flat upon their backs.
With the early dawn they were awake.
"I expect they are getting up steam on board the 'Falcon,'" Hawtry said, "and no doubt there is a nice row over our being missing.