Nino gave him another.

Then Temistocle had no more doubts.
"I will conduct your excellency," he said.

They moved away, and Temistocle was so deaf that he did not hear the mules and the tramp of the man who led them not ten paces behind him.
Passing round the rock they found themselves in the shadow; a fact which Nino noted with much satisfaction, for he feared lest someone might be keeping late hours in the castle.

The mere noise of the mules would attract no attention in a mountain town where the country people start for their distant work at all hours of the day and night.

They came to the door.