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Updated: May 5, 2025
After dinner the count, on some pretence, detained Marie in the library while Master Matyas completed his task in her room. This masterpiece was a peculiar curtain composed of small squares of steel so joined together that light and air could easily penetrate the screen. It was fitted between the two marble columns which supported the arch of the bed-alcove.
The light came from another room still farther on. It was the sleeping-chamber of the lady of the house. There were no robbers here, but on the table lay jewelry and articles of silver which had been emptied from the cases lying about the floor. In an arm-chair which stood near the bed-alcove reclined a female form, the arms and hands firmly bound with cords to the chair.
I'll warrant ye full many a fair white dove hath beat her tender pinions " "Come!" said Beltane, and speaking, reached out his torch to bed-alcove and tapestried wall; and immediately silk and arras went up in a puff of flame a leaping fire, yellow-tongued, that licked at gilded roof-beam and carven screen and panel.
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