Introduction

steel kilt proposed to the two canalers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison. He would do this, he said, whether they joined him or not, that was the last night he would spend in that den. But the scheme met with no opposition on the part of the other two. They swore they were ready for that, or for any other mad thing, for anything, in short, but a surrender. And what was more, they each insisted upon being the first man on deck when the time to make the rush should come.