[ [7] The description of the interior of the oubliette is in accordance with that into which the author was lowered at Castelnau le Bretenoux. The ruin of the castle at Domme is so complete that the oubliettes there, if they existed, are buried.
Against the wall, lying with his head raised, his eyes open, looking at the light, not at Jean, was his father, his legs extended on the cold floor, and about him were strewn the bones of dead men, skulls and skeletons, more or less disturbed by the blind groping of the last victim.
Jean at once went to the old man.
"Father! dear father!" he said.
"Eh?"
"It is I—Jean."
"Eh?"
"I have come to release you."
"Eh?"
The old man's senses seemed lost.