However, Parabere soon recalled me to the point. "It is now ten
o'clock," he said in a placid tone; "we have two hours."
"Yes," I answered; then, as if my mind had all the time been
running in an under-current to the desired goal, I continued,
"And we must make the most of them. We must remove the
barricade, in the dark and quietly, from the rear to the front
gate. Do you see? Then the moment they sound the attack in
front we must slip out at the back, make a dash for the road, and
through the gorge to Gueret."
"Good," Parabere assented, with the utmost coolness. "Why not?
Let us do it."
We went in, and in a moment the orders were given, and, the men
being charged to be silent and to make as little noise as
possible over the work, we had every hope of accomplishing it
undetected. To go out into the road and raise and replace the
shattered gate would have been too bold a step. We contented
ourselves, therefore, with removing four great baulks of timber
from the one gate to the other, and placing them across the gap
in such a manner that, being supported by large stones, they
formed a pretty high barrier.
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