"I pray you to collect your comrades and to assemble here at once." In a minute or two some twenty officials were gathered in the hall.
"Are all here ?" D'Aubusson asked the governor.
The latter counted the men.
"There are two short," he said--"Pietro Romano and Karl Schumann.

They occupy the same room.

Go and fetch them down, four of you." The four men nearest to the stairs at once went up with two torches.
They returned in a minute.
"The door is fastened on the inside, and we can obtain no response." "Fetch an axe and break it in," the grand master ordered.

"Sir John Boswell, do you, with some other knights, take post without; they may attempt to escape by the window, though, as we hold the gates, it would avail them little.

Sir Gervaise Tresham, do you follow us." Gervaise, who had been placed with the party watching the house, followed the grand master and governor upstairs.