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Both Sides the Border

CHAPTER 13: Escape
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Ask them if the trapdoor leading on to the platform is fastened, and whether they can unfasten it.

If not, we must break it in, from above.

We can get on to the top of the turret, easily enough, by throwing the rope up with a hook attached.
"Of course, the two sentries must be first silenced.

I would wait till I, myself, should be on sentry there; but that might not occur for a week, and you cannot prolong your stay here more than another day; therefore, we will try it tonight.

I have given the men with the horses notice.
"Do you get the priest bound and gagged, by ten o'clock; everything will be quiet by that time.


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