Her
eyes lowered, and an expression of pique came into her pretty face; then
she breathed a long sigh.
"I shall go to my room," she said very quietly.
"I will call upon you the moment I have given some instructions to my
third lieutenant."
"You need not trouble," she replied haughtily, speaking, however, as
mildly as himself. "I remain a prisoner of the Pfalzgraf von Stahleck,
who, though a distinguished pillager like yourself, nevertheless
possesses some instincts of a gentleman."
With that, the young woman retired slowly up the stairway, and
disappeared, followed by her two servants.
"Ebearhard," said Roland, when that official appeared, "Greusel has
discovered a window to the north through which yourself and a number of
your men can get down to the rocks with the aid of a cord, and he tells
me there is a loft full of ropes. A flotilla of boats is tied up at the
lower end of the Castle. He has visited the treasury, and finds it well
supplied with bags of coin. I intend to effect a junction between those
bags and that flotilla.
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