“The first light we see we’ll land a hundred yards below it or above it, in a place where it’s a good hiding-place for you and the skiff, and then I’ll go and fix up some kind of a yarn, and get somebody to go for that gang and get them out of their scrape, so they can be hung when their time comes.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 13. Huck comes up with a plan to get help for the thieves on board the wrecked steamboat. To save them from harm, but also to ensure they are brought to justice and hanged.