I suppose you have nothing more to say to the prisoner, and Grimbald may as well lock him up." And, receiving a nod of assent from the other, he called to the jailer to finish his task.
But Sir Jocelyn resolutely refused to enter the cell, and demanded a room in one of the upper wards.
"You shall have no other chamber than this," said Sir Giles, in a peremptory tone.
"I did not address myself to you, Sir, but to the deputy-warden," rejoined Sir Jocelyn.

"Master Joachim Tunstall, you well know I am not sentenced by the Star-Chamber, or any other court, to confinement within this cell.

I will not enter it; and I order you, at your peril, to provide me with a better chamber.

This is wholly unfit for occupation." "Do not argue the point, Grimbald, but force him into the cell," roared the extortioner.
"Fair and softly, Sir Giles, fair and softly," replied the jailer.

"Now, prisoner, you hear what is said--are you prepared to obey ?" And he was about to lay hands rudely upon Sir Jocelyn, when the latter, pushing him aside, ran nimbly up the steps, and seizing Sir Giles by the throat, dragged him downward.
Notwithstanding the resistance of the extortioner, whose efforts at liberation were seconded by Grimbald, our young knight succeeded in forcing his enemy into the dungeon, and hurled him to the further end of it.