two o'clock
Jack gave them final orders . The most difficult work was the getting out Jones and Barney , for they had special cells . Jack was to guard Jones 's exit and Dick Barney 's , but now all the work would devolve upon him . It was two o'clock , and he dared wait no longer . Raising himself from the low wall where he had been crouching , he started toward the corner of the prison farthest from the guard-room . At the wall of the building he dropped flat on his face and began to crawl forward , sheltered by the low ground that formed a sort of dry ditch about the basement of the prison . He had barely stretched himself at full length when a bright light was flashed on him from a deep doorway just beyond him , and a voice , mocking and triumphant , exclaimed .