"And the Captain is now with him—in the dungeon under the keep."
"Doing what?" asked Noémi in breathless alarm.
"There is none in the world can save him but yourself; the Captain would listen to no one else."
"Save him—from what?"
"The oubliette."
CHAPTER XVI.
VADE IN PACE.
The thought of undefined horror conveyed by that word "oubliette" for a moment held Noémi as though it had paralysed her. But this was for a moment only, and then she bounded in the direction of the keep.