"Here is no one!"
"No one! Yet am I sure I saw—"
"A shadow!" answered the other. "And we have nothing worse to fight!"
"Some one was there, Seigneur," stubbornly, "and fled!"
"Eh bien! He's gone!"
"He? It looked like a—"
"Back with you, quick! Is this a time for talk? Call those who can come—if they would save their necks!"
"Here they are now," exclaimed the servant, and, as he spoke, the first of their men, blowing out the light he carried, ran quickly across the guard-chamber and into the open air. Others hastily followed, until the gathering, swelled by those brought with them from the dungeons, stood expectantly before the little stone structure.
"All the prisoners are here?"
"All!"