She found herself being carried away into the darkness of a cave.
For a moment she could not think what was happening. Then, as she struggled and realised the hands that held her were strong and there were four of them, she knew any resistance was useless and could only desperately wonder where she was being taken.
She had not long to wait since the dark passage she was carried down opened suddenly into what was a large cavern lit by flaring torches with a wood fire at the far end of it.
Now she was roughly set down on the ground, but she was still unable to speak because the hand was kept tightly across her mouth.
But she could see and she saw that standing in the centre of the cave was a man who looked so exactly like the popular conception of a brigand, that it was difficult to beli
