Tell him--the young man he sent for to Andrew Comin's." The man left him, and Donal began to look about him.

The place where he stood was a mere entry, a cell in huge walls, with a second, a low, round-headed door, like the entrance to a prison, by which the butler had disappeared.

There was nothing but bare stone around him, with again the Morven arms cut deep into it on one side.

The ceiling was neither vaulted nor groined nor flat, but seemed determined by the accidental concurrence of ends of stone stairs and corners of floors on different levels.

It was full ten minutes before the man returned and requested him to follow him.
Immediately Donal found himself in a larger and less irregular stone-case, adorned with heads and horns and skins of animals.