If they came out, they must lower the bridge; he would place himself so that in falling it should cover him and screen him from their sight.

He rounded the angle of the building, and now the friendly cloud that had hung across the moon moved by, and a faint, silver radiance was upon the water under his eyes.

But yonder, ahead of him, something black lay athwart the moat.

At once he knew it for the bridge.
It was down.

And he had the explanation in that he remembered that the Lord Seneschal had not yet left Condillac.