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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: the event that they succeeded in their object.
At a distance it had seemed an easy thing to plan the escape of
David Henderson and to accomplish it by craft, but a sight of the
heavy stone walls that encircled the prison and of the numerous
armed guards who paced to and fro on the walls, put a more
chilling aspect on their chances.
"It isn't a very gay outlook," Bucky admitted cheerfully to his
companion, "but I expect we can pull it off somehow. If these
Mexican officials weren't slower than molasses in January it
might have been better to wait and have him released by process
of law on account of Hardman's confession. But it would take them
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