They had not quite reached the top and it was then he remembered that the turret they had seen from the ground rose to a high tapered point.
According to Celina this was very characteristic of Orkney Castles.
The room was furnished sparsely with a table, two chairs and a rickety iron bedstead.
The men unwound the ropes they had put around the Marquis and Celina.
“How long will we have to stay here?” the Marquis asked them.
They did not answer and he suddenly realised that they did not understand him.
The chief pirate had spoken to them in a language that might have been that of the Orkney Islanders or some Scandinavian tongue.
Without saying anything, the men went out through the door and the Marquis heard them lock it firmly behind them and there was a clatter of their footsteps go
