One man took him by the head and another by the feet and started off with him to the schooner.
Captain Spade was the last to quit the house after extinguishing the lamp and closing the door behind him.

In this way there was no reason to suppose that the inmates would be missed before morning.
Gaydon was carried off in the same way as Thomas Roch had been.

The two remaining sailors lifted him and bore him quietly but rapidly down the path to the door in the wall.

The park was pitch dark.

Not even a glimmer of the lights in the windows of Healthful House could be seen through the thick foliage.
Arrived at the wall, Spade, who had led the way, stepped aside to allow the sailors with their burdens to pass through, then followed and closed and locked the door.