It contained the merest slit for light, and was clearly unused.

Another door, this time unfastened, led into a larger apartment, which was also at present unoccupied.

They could hear now the shouts of the combatants without, the loud orders given by the leaders on the walls, the crack, as the stones hurled by the mangonels struck the walls, and the ring of steel as the arrows struck against steel cap and cuirass.
"It is fortunate that all were so well engaged, or they would certainly have heard the noise of our forcing the door, which would have brought all of them upon us.

As it is, we are in the heart of the keep.

We have now but to make a rush up these winding steps, and methinks we shall find ourselves on the battlements.