"What do you mean, uncle?"
"Are you willing to help us?"
"I am."
"Then you can put out the lights."
"What lights?"
"At the proper time, put out the lights in the assembly; but wait; I will go and muster the train-bands, and have them at hand to prevent the governor's soldiers from injuring the members of the general assembly."
Captain Wadsworth went out, and on his way looked into the State-house where everything was going as well as he could have wished. He found the debaters cudgelling their brains for something to say to the point or against it. Never did debaters take greater interest in a minor subject.
He summoned his train-bands to assemble at sunset. This done, he went home and found Charles eagerly waiting.
"Charles, you see the soldiers of Governor Andros at the State-house?"
"Yes."