Come, let us go." With this she playfully turned her companion about and pushed him from the cell.

As she did so she made a quick backward movement with her right hand, and something fell on the straw pallet as though flung there.

A second later the door was relocked, and, with merry laughter again echoing through the dim corridor, they were gone.
Curiously Ridge fumbled in the musty bedding until he found a small packet enveloped in brown paper.

He opened it eagerly.

Inside were two tiny steel saws, made from a watch spring, and a little tube of oil.