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Updated: May 26, 2025
"My faith! then your two quests are accomplished at the same moment," said the leader of the guardsmen. "And, for another wonder, your son turns out to be a person I have already met. But your friend, Monsieur?" This inquiry was to me, and made with sudden solicitude. "Locked in the tower of Morlon, waiting for me to come with food, perhaps dying or dead.
And the same lightning revealed, against the background of trees, a solitary tower, old and half-ruined, slender and of no great height. A doorway on a level with the ground stood half open. "Did you see that?" I cried, when the lightning had passed. "There is shelter." "It must be the tower of Morlon," said the Countess. "And who lives there?"
"Nobody, at least it was said to be empty when I used to hear of it. It is all that is left of a house that was destroyed in the civil wars. Hunting parties sometimes resort to it, and the peasants make use of it when passing this way. Yes, we have come far out of our road, if that is really the tower of Morlon." "Then it is every man's house. The door is open."
Why, hello, Jack! how long have you been here? Morlon, you know Mr. Breen, don't you? Yes, of course you do new member just elected. Get a move on that carcass of yours, Biffy, and let somebody else get up to that table. Charles, take the orders."
I should be amazed to find you here, if I hadn't seen stranger things before now." While he cut the cords that bound my ankles and wrists, I told him how I had been waylaid. "I was going with food and wine to a friend who lies locked in a deserted tower called Morlon. She is ill to death, and may now be dead for lack of food and air to keep up her strength. I must go to her " "A woman, then?"
Suppose, thought I, my father kills the Captain but the Captain first kills me? Had I not better now tell my father to seek the Tower of Morlon and release a person confined there? But if I did that, the Captain would hear, and suppose he killed my father as well as me! I held my tongue. The Captain now maintained his position, neither giving ground nor pressing forward.
Now, my man, how long will it take us, your comrades bearing the pine trunk with which we rammed this gate, to reach the tower of Morlon?" "Two hours, Monsieur, I should say," replied the robber. "It is too much," said the guardsman. "You will lead us thither in an hour at the utmost, or at the end of the hour you shall hang to the tree I then happen to be under."
Monsieur, I was brought here blindfold: but I must find the way back to the tower of Morlon without delay, it is somewhere in this forest." "No doubt some of these gentry know the way," said the guardsman, indicating the robbers. "We'll make it a condition of his life for one of them to guide us." "You make me your life-long debtor, Monsieur," I cried.
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