CHAPTER XXXI“You must not go out by the gate,” Del Formo said, “even by night, for that would be to ask for notice at once, it being a thing which is not done.
“There is a place where the bastion is low, and has been shaken into the fosse more than it should, at which we have winked for reasons I need not say (but if the Turks should choose to rush us at that point they would find it an ill choice), and there you could go down without toil, but, as you have no more than one arm in use, you shall have a rope’s help. You will go for thirty paces along the fosse, and you will find the counter-scarp in no better case, and very easy to climb.
“How long you will endure after that is beyond my guess. But I will tell you this. The spies say that they are little observed when they attempt to ente
