“I have friends in the city,” he said. “They will not see me taken. Farewell, Reist! Remember!”
He hastened from the room. Reist stooped down and cut the cords which held Ruttens.
“Listen, Ruttens,” he said. “I have plans of my own for saving Theos, and unfortunately Domiloff has been concerned in them. But that is over. You know the western entrance? He leaves by that. Quick!”
Ruttens staggered from the room. Already the sound of firearms rang out from the hall below.
CHAPTER XLVI
“This is life,” Brand said, blithely, as he leaped from his steaming horse.
“And death,” Ughtred answered, gravely. “God grant that Theos may not know many days such as this.”
Brand fixed his field-glasses and swept the scene below.