If we give four hard and three gentle knocks, it will be opened.

Can you understand what they are saying ?" "Some one is begging to be set free," replied Pentaur, "and speaks of some traitor.

The other has a rough voice, and says he must follow his master's orders.

Now the one who spoke before is crying; do you hear?
He is entreating him by the soul of his father to take his fetters off.

How despairing his voice is! Knock, Kaschta--it strikes me we are come at the right moment--knock, I say." The soldier knocked first four times, then three times.