All had gone so well at first; and now this fatal turn! Suddenly it occurred to him that all was not yet lost.
Gerard must be either in Peter's room or Margaret's; they were not so very high from the ground.

Gerard would leap out.

Dierich had left a man below; but what then?
For half a minute Gerard and he would be two to one, and in that brief space, what might not be done?
Martin then held the back door ajar and watched.

The light shone in Peter's room.

"Curse the fool!" said he, "is he going to let them take him like a girl ?" The light now passed into Margaret's bedroom.