“Well, I’m about in the humor to try anything. That last meal was worse than anything yet given to us.”
“Yes, and we’ll get worse still—if Captain Barusky has anything to do with it.”
“What is your scheme?”
“You know the guard is changed about the time supper is brought in,” whispered Gilbert. “Sometimes the guard doesn’t come up right away—I mean the new man. The fellow who brings the supper is rather old and feeble. Why can’t we overpower him and lock him in?”
“And run our chances of getting out of the building in the dark?”
“Exactly.”
“It’s mighty risky. There’s a whole company of soldiers stationed in this vicinity.”
“If you don’t want to try it, say so.”
“Do you want to run the risk, Gilbert?”
“Yes.”