I had just reached the spot, when a loud whistle sounded over the moat behind me.
"Hullo, Max!" I heard shouted.
I hailed Sapt in a low tone.

The rope came down.

I tied it round the corpse, and then went up it myself.
"Whistle you too," I whispered, "for our men, and haul in the line.

No talk now." They hauled up the body.

Just as it reached the road, three men on horseback swept round from the front of the Castle.