16/24 Though, should there be signs of any one stirring even then, you had better wait till later. It were foolish to risk having our going prevented for the sake of leaving a half-hour earlier." "Depend upon me," Arsenio answered him. "When I open the door of your tower I shall whistle to you. The key of the postern hangs on the guardroom wall. I shall possess myself of that before I come." "Good," said Garnache, "we understand each other." And on that they might have parted there and then, but that there happened in that moment a commotion at the gate. |