Then with chisel and hammer he went from one to another and cut the iron bands which bound them.
Oracus and Henry Waters joined him in the work of liberation, until all were freed.
This required several moments of time, and the confusion and uproar which they were compelled to make was rousing the town.
Mr. Parris, half-dressed, ran barefoot through the town, waving his long arms in the air, and shouting that the fiends of the air had conspired to liberate the prisoners. His words and his wild, fanatical manner tended rather to increase the fear of the people of Salem, than diminish it. Then there went out the report through the village that the Indians had attacked the town, and the people, roused from their midnight slumbers, magnified the numbers of the assailants ten to one.
"Cora! Mother!" whispered Charles, "this way!"
He took a hand of each and started to run from the jail down the street.
Others followed.
"Fly! all of you! Fly for your lives!" cried Henry Waters, who, now that his work was done, flung aside his iron bar and sledge.
At a word of command from Oracus his warriors formed a hollow square about the escaping fugitives, and moved off as rapidly as they could.
Everybody was bewildered. Everybody running into the street was asking: