tom swift among the diamond makers

 Laffite was in prison and in sad condition physically and mentally.  So he decided to do something about it he got under his metal bed and started lifting it over his head again and again he sweated and sweated and groaned but he did it. After a while of doing this every day the war with England wasn't going very well so the prisoners were told to make saddles sowing part of the saddles that were being made and one-day Laffite was able to steal a file by hiding it in his hair because they had not cut him it stayed pretty long.