"And now, Captain Urrea, if you will lead the way, I'll follow." Urrea and his soldiers took Ned from the Veramendi house and across the street to a large and strong stone building.
"You are fortunate," said Urrea, "to have escaped immediate death.

I do not know why the name of Roylston was so powerful with our general, but I saw that it was." "It seemed to have its effect," said Ned.
Urrea led the way to the flat roof of the house, a space reached by a single narrow stairway.
"I shall leave you here with two guards," he said.

"I shall give them instructions to fire upon you at the slightest attempt on your part to escape, but I fancy that you will have sense enough not to make any such attempt." Urrea departed, but the two sentinels sat by the entrance to the stairway, musket in hand.

He had not the faintest chance to get by them, and knowing it he sat down on the low stone coping of the roof.

He wondered why Urrea had brought him there instead of locking him up in a room.