Woe to you if he does not find his lady there!' "'It is the Signet that he must have sent, sure enough,' the captain said again, 'to disobey which is death.' "'Yes, open, open,' whispered his companions.
"So they opened, though doubtfully, and we entered, and I barred the door behind us.

Then, to be short, through the darkness of the tower basement, guiding ourselves by the wall, we crept to the entrance of that way of which I know the secret.

Ay, and along all its length and through the rock door of escape at the end of which I set so that none can turn it, save skilled masons with their tools, and into the cave where we found you.

It was no great matter, having the Signet, although without the Signet it had not been possible to-night, when every gate is guarded." "No great matter!" gasped Rosamund.

"Oh, Godwin and Wulf! if you could know how she thought of and made ready everything; if you could have seen how all those cruel men glared at us, searching out our very souls! If you could have heard how high she answered them, waving that ring before their eyes and bidding them to obey its presence, or to die!" "Which they surely have done by now," broke in Masouda quietly, "though I do not pity them, who were wicked.