"The cry you mention may indeed have been but fancy.

Is it not likely that fear as to her fate may have prompted her to seek safety in flight ?" "Her Grace thinks not, else some clue as to her path must, ere this, have been discovered.

Besides, escape was literally impossible without the aid of magic, which however her accursed race know well how to use.

The guards must have seen her, had she passed her own threshold in any human form.

The casement was untouched, remaining exactly as the Senora Leon secured it with her own hand the preceding evening; and, even had she thence descended to the ground, she could have gone no further from the high and guarded walls.