Chapter FiveFor a moment the Earl stood in silence just staring at the closed door.
Then he said in a deliberately quiet and controlled voice,
“Have you any idea how we can get out of this place?”
“N-no.”
Minerva was so frightened that her voice sounded little more than a whisper, and very unsteady.
The Earl turned and walked across to where the water was seeping in, coming it seemed from the floor of the dungeon.
By this time there was a stream of it moving slowly across the floor and again in the same calm voice he asked,
“How can we turn off this water?”
“It – it’s – impossible!” Minerva stammered. “It comes from the moat and fills the dungeon – so that it is level with it.”
The Earl said nothing.
Then he bent down and tried to find the place where he could plug the water and
