He inquired to whom he should go for the keys.

They replied that the captain of the gendarmerie had them.

The captain was not far off, for the cloister adjoining the church had been converted into a barrack.
Roland went up to the captain's room and made himself known as Bonaparte's aide-de-camp.

The captain, with the placid obedience of a subaltern to his superior officer, gave him the keys and followed behind him.

Sir John was waiting before the porch, admiring, in spite of the mutilation to which they had been subjected, the admirable details of the frontal.
Roland opened the door and started back in astonishment.