But there's the baker Carcaud--" "The baker ?" asked Ranulph dumfounded.

"I thought he was tied to a rock and left to drown, by Rullecour's orders." "I had him set free after Rullecour had gone on to the town.

He got away to France." Ranulph's anxiety deepened.

"He might come back, and then if anything happened to him--" "He'd try and make things happen to others, eh?
But there's little danger of his coming back.

They know he's a traitor, and he knows he'd be hung.