The family retired early; and, taking his great-coat on his arm, he stole noiselessly out of the house.

At nine o'clock he was at the rendezvous of the Rovers.
It was not deemed prudent to put their plans in execution till a later hour; and the band dispersed, with instructions to meet again in an hour at Flat Rock, where the boats would be in readiness to take them off to the island.
Tim and Charles, with four others, immediately repaired to the place where Joe Braman's boat, which had been hired for the enterprise, was concealed.

Seating themselves in it, they waited till the hour had expired, and then, with muffled oars, pulled up to the Butterfly's house.
The doors which opened out upon the lake were not fastened, and an entrance was readily effected.

The boat was loosed, pushed out into the lake without noise, and towed down to the Zephyr's house.

But here the doors were found to be fastened; and one of the boys had to enter by a window, and draw the bolt.