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In the event of an alarm being given and the garrison aroused, two of the men were to rush in and overpower the officers, while the remainder were to rally round the door of the larger room and prevent a sally until a signal-whistle should inform them that the work of spiking was completed, when the whole were to give leg-bail and make for the beach.
He was ready dressed to go out, and was only lingering before the looking-glass, when he heard outside the signal-whistle with which Heppner, his boon-companion, was accustomed to call him. He soon joined the deputy sergeant-major in the street, and after a brief greeting the two walked rapidly towards the town.
The man's evil intentions were manifest now; and Le Despenser, drawing his sword, sternly commanded him to continue his voyage to Ireland, if he valued his life. The barge-master's only reply was a low signal-whistle, in answer to which twenty men, concealed in the hold, sprang on deck and overwhelmed the little band of fugitives.
"Who are you and where do you go?" "That's none of your business!" "I give you two minutes to answer." "Only two minutes?" "One!" called the man. "You're crazy!" said the detective. "Two!" called the man. The detective uttered a signal-whistle call, and seven or eight men sprung forward. The sentinel stood paralyzed. "Why don't you call three?" demanded Vance. The man made no reply.
When Christian Vellacott passed out of the drawing-room window in answer to what he naturally supposed to be a signal-whistle from Hilda or Sidney, he turned down the narrow, winding pathway that led to the moat. The extreme darkness, contrasting suddenly with the warm light of the room he had just left, caused him to walk slowly with outstretched hands.
The want of this alone sufficed to overthrow the most ingenious of consolatory explanations. All four looked at it from different points of view, and to each the signal-whistle calling Christian into the garden was an insurmountable barrier to every explanation. Before it was wholly light Hilda moved wearily to the window.
As soon as Will found himself on the ground he set off on a run, toward where he supposed his friends to be in hiding. Jack gave the usual signal-whistle of his crowd, and Will, hearing it, came up quickly. "What happened?" "Didn't he make a row?" "Are they going to report it?" "How'd you get away?" These were some of the questions to which the throng of boys demanded answers.
And again, the recollection of the signal-whistle heard by Molly was unwelcome. "Yes," he replied vaguely. "Yes, it may." He was, by nature and habit, a slow thinker, and Hilda was running away from him a little; but he was, perhaps, surer than she. "I am convinced, Sidney," she continued, "that Christian connects Signor Bruno in some manner with the disturbances in France.
As she spoke a low whistle was heard without. "It is Alain's signal," cried Rose, all in a flutter. "He brings me news from Michael." So saying Mme. de Maufant moved with a quick step towards the door opening on the back yard, whence the signal-whistle evidently came. Marguerite site still on her tabouret, her head hidden in her shapely white hands.
He had taken no notice of what was going on in the ship. The Chevalier de la Vieuville had drawn up the marines on either side of the main-mast, and at a signal-whistle of the boatswain the sailors, who had been busy in the rigging, stood up on the yards. Count Boisberthelot approached the passenger.
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