List at least 2 paragraphs in this chapter in which the author attempts to secure the reader's interest in the remainder of the book by promising that he has a story to tell
Why shouldn’t we go armed? There was danger in what we had decided to do. Otherwise, why were we creeping out of the house in the middle of the night, like foxes round a sheep-pen?
If Snap had gone with us that night, as he wanted to, I should never have come into the peril of death, and this story would never have been told. But it’s no good crying over spilt milk, and perhaps it wasn’t such a bad thing after all.
Cue for Treason
