Chapter SixIt took the Marquis only a few minutes to find the nightwatchmen, instruct them to awaken Newman and several footmen and bring the two men he had left unconscious into the house.
He ordered that they were to be bound and locked up until the morning, when he would send for the Sheriff and also interrogate them himself.
As he hurried back to Idylla’s bedroom, he thought now that it seemed foolish that, while there were nightwatchmen inside The Castle, no one had ever thought it necessary to patrol the grounds.
‘Who could have imagined,’ he asked himself, ‘that anyone would wish to abduct a guest?’
It seemed incredible that not only had an attempt been made to kidnap Idylla, but it would also have been successful if, by some strange, almost supernatural perception, the Marquis
