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Do you quietly go about among those you can surely trust and arrange for them to be ready to open their doors and take my men in without the slightest noise which might attract the sentries on the walls . So long as the wind is quiet and the sea smooth we shall not come , but the first day that the wind blows hard you may expect us . Then do you go out on the south road and wait for my party half a mile from the village . If they come not by midnight , return home and watch the following night . '' `` I understand , '' the fisherman said , `` and will do as you bid me ; and when the time comes you can rely upon twenty stout fellows here in addition to your own force . '' '' 'T is nigh eleven , '' Archie said , looking at the sun , `` and we will be off at once , as the soldiers will soon be coming out , and it were best the governor did not hear that two strangers were in the village . Vigilant as he is , a small thing might excite his suspicion and add to his watchfulness . ''