Up I was in a jiffy and ran to the door to call your honour but I found the door was locked from the inside.

I then ran to the windows and found that the shutters were nailed down over them.

What horrified me most of all, however, was that nobody came from the castle to put the fire out.

Then I began to roar for help and while I was roaring and running up and down looking for an axe with which to batter in the door--'burum! burum!' I heard two shots and the bullets whistled to the right and left about my ears.

At that all my pluck went down to my heels; I rushed under the shelter of the barn, cut the tether ropes of the horses, swung myself up on to the saddle horse, driving the others before me, and trotted into Arad without once stopping to water them." So he had reached home more quickly than Squire Gerzson himself.
"Well, my son," said Gerzson, "all that you have told me is gospel truth I have no doubt, but say not a word of it to anybody, or else.