They were allowed to go a short distance, in order to see if any others followed; but as no others came out, the governor stepped forward.
"Whither are you going, at this time of night ?" he asked.

There was a momentary pause, a few hasty words were exchanged, then the five men rushed towards him with bared swords or knives; but before they reached him the knights poured out from their hiding place.
"We are betrayed," one of the men shouted in Turkish.

"Fight to the last.

Better be killed than tortured and executed." With a yell of fury and despair, they rushed upon the knights.

So desperate was their attack that the latter were forced to use their swords, which indeed, burning with rage at the treachery of these men, they were not backward in doing, and in less than a minute the five traitors lay, with cloven heads, dead on the pavement.
"It is as well so," D'Aubusson said, looking sternly down upon them; "perhaps better so, since it has saved us the scandal of their trial.
We might have learned more from them, but we have learnt enough, since, doubtless, they have no accomplices among the warders, or they would have been with them.