While Eben was speaking he succeeded in cutting the cords, and Allen's hands were free.
Eben glided away as noiselessly as he came, and Allen woke Baker as quickly as possible.
"Heigho! Have we to continue our journey?"
"Hush! do not utter a word! We have a chance to escape, if you will listen and not speak."
Allen told him all that had been done, and then quietly cut the other's cords.
Both men were free.
They lay as still as though the cords still bound their bodies.
Allen sang another song in a low, tremulous voice.
Again it had the effect of disarming suspicion.
A bird warbled in a tree, rather strangely for so late at night, but as one of the men remarked that it was the bird's lookout and not his, no notice was taken of it.