Ned was alone at that awful spot!
CHAPTER VII.
PHILIP REDGILL’S ENCOUNTER WITH WILDFIRE NED.
It was a lucky moment for some of the servants that old Sir Richard and his party of sailors did so suddenly burst upon the scene, and thus put an end to the bloody ordeal that was then taking place.
They had hung several to the beam, and some of the maid servants had been carried off.
Roger and the coachman lay upon the floor, thoroughly exhausted, bleeding from all parts of the body.
Tim, the groom, like a lively monkey, managed to climb up the rafters unseen, and hid himself behind a great beam.
But the sudden inroad of Wildfire Ned so exasperated the Skeleton Crew, that they gave no heed to the domestics, but turned all their attention to Lieut. Garnet and his sailors.
In the meantime the unfortunate servants stopped the deadly duels among themselves, and crawled out of the way of further harm.