My way out will he easy enough," replied Herne; "but your escape is
attended with more difficulty. You remember how we went to the
vaulted chamber in the Curfew Tower on the night when Mark Fytton,
the butcher, was confined within it?"
I do," replied Fenwolf; "but I can think of nothing while I am tied thus."
Heme instantly drew forth a hunting-knife, and cutting Fenwolf's bonds
asunder, the latter started to his feet.
"If that bull-headed butcher would have joined me, I would have
liberated him as I am about to liberate you," pursued Herne. "But to
return to the matter in hand. You recollect the secret passage we then
tracked? There is just such another staircase in this tower."
And stepping to the farther side of the chamber, he touched a small
knob in the wall, and a stone flew hack, disclosing an aperture just
large enough to allow a man to pass through it.
"There is your road to freedom," he said, pointing to the hole. "Creep
along that narrow passage, and it will bring you to a small loophole in
the wall, not many feet from the ground. The loophole is guarded by a
bar of iron, but it is moved by a spring in the upper part of the stone in
which it appears to be mortised.
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