done then was to have gone some place and hidden until the tired of waiting and then an open field would have been left for us to put up our tin banner. Instead, however, we remained where we were in order to see what moves they would make.  By this time there were about a dozen or more of them, and all of them big fellows too.  Among them also we saw some “outsiders.”  This also should have been a warning to us, but we seem to have been blind that night.
     Suddenly they gave a shout and rushed toward the building.  But they had made a mistake: they went to the west end instead of the east; we saw that they were only guessing.  Had they come our direction they would surely have caught one of us; but