Miss Pickle having described the spot which
the assassins had pitched upon for the scene of their vengeance,
our triumvirate intended to have placed a sentinel among the corn,
who should come and give them intelligence when the ambuscade was
laid; and, in consequence of that information, they would steal
softly towards the place, attended by three or four of the domestics,
and draw a large net over the conspirators, who, being entangled
in the toil, should be disarmed, fettered, heartily scourged, and
suspended between two trees in the snare, as a spectacle to all
passengers that should chance to travel that way.
The plan being thus digested, and the commodore acquainted with the
whole affair, the spy was sent upon duty, and everybody within-doors
prepared to go forth upon the first notice. One whole evening did
they spend in the most impatient expectation, but on the second
the scout crept into the garrison, and assured them that he had
perceived three men skulking behind the hedge, on the road that led
to the public-house from which Peregrine and the lieutenant used
every night to return about that hour.
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