"The window in that room! It is the one by which Barney entered! It must be the one by which the wretch fled with Inza!"
Back into the room he had just left he leaped. Two bounds carried him to the window, against which brushed the branch of the old willow tree.
He looked out.
"There they are!"
The exultant words came in a panting whisper from his lips as he saw some dark figures on the ground beneath the tree. He was sure he saw a female form among them, and his ears did not deceive him, for he heard at last a smothered appeal for help.
Then two other forms rushed out of the shadows and fell upon the men beneath the tree, striking right and left!
There was a short, fierce struggle, a woman's shriek, the death groan of a stricken man, a pistol shot, and scattering forms.
Without pausing to measure the distance to the ground, Frank sprang over the window sill and dropped.