"Perhaps," he said grimly, "you have already arranged your plans?"
She looked at him with a singular reproachfulness even in her
submission.
"I have only told her to be ready to change clothes with me and help me
color my face and hands at the time appointed. I have left the rest to
you."
"Then this is my plan. I have changed only a detail. You and she must
both leave this house at the same time, by different exits, but one of
them must be private--and unknown to my men. Do you know of such a one?"
"Yes," she said, "in the rear of the negro quarters."
"Good," he replied, "that will be your way out. She will leave here,
publicly, through the parade, armed with a pass from me. She will be
overhauled and challenged by the first sentry near the guardhouse, below
the wall. She will be subjected to some delay and scrutiny, which she
will, however, be able to pass better than you would. This will create
the momentary diversion that we require. In the mean time, you will have
left the house by the rear, and you will then keep in the shadow of the
hedge until you can drop down along the Run, where it empties into the
swamp. That," he continued, fixing his keen eyes upon her, "is the one
weak point in the position of this place that is neither overlooked nor
defended.
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