"Do you mean that they will kill him?"
"What else can be done? It is his life against a nation, Dick. A man like that may cause a thousand deaths by betraying a single secret. But—about the men in the tunnel. I might have known that there was some good reason for your knowing. Yes, it is true. There are men working there, and they will try to explode their mine and blow up the arsenal to-night."
"Can't you reach them? I think that two or three men might get Hallo through the town and to the boathouse. They could pretend that he was drunk, and that they were helping him along, if he was still unconscious."
"Dick, I think you've hit on the right idea again! I'll try to get them. But suppose they come to first?"
"If we tied them up?" was Dick's suggestion.
"It would be risky. The watchman may come here at any moment after he hears no more voices."
"Yes, that's so. How long would it take you to go?"
"To go and come back? Twenty minutes, perhaps."
"Then go! Don't delay any longer, and I will stay here and keep watch."
"In here? No, it is too dangerous. I am afraid now, if they learn what you have done for us, they will be able to make a real charge against you, and that even your consul could not help you to escape severe punishment."