"Then Ergalon shall risk his life for you," she said. "I know that which will induce him to attempt what to-day he said could not be done. I will seek him at once. For now, good-bye; do not go to bed, but be ready, if you hear some one at the window. You can reach it, if you stand up on the table." And, without further explanation, she left him. Templemore sat for long pondering upon this strange interview, and wondering too what she had planned; and the time seemed to drag wearily while he waited for some signal at the window. It was about midnight, as he judged, when there came a tap, tap from the outside. He sprang on to the table; then by the dim light that came through the window he could discern the upper part of a man's body swinging on a rope. "Is that Ergalon?" he whispered. "Yes," came back the answer. "If I send you in a short rope and you wait till I have gone down, you can then pull in the rope I am on, get on to it, and come down yourself. Do you dare try it?" "Yes." "Then here it is. Now wait till you find you can pull this one in." Templemore felt about and caught hold of a small cord that was hanging inside the window--which was open to the air--and he pulled lightly at it till he felt the strain upon the rope to which it was attached, relaxed. Then he pulled harder, and a portion of a thicker rope came inside. By its means he was able to climb up on to the sill. With some trouble and manoeuvring he got outside and was soon sliding down the rope, which Ergalon steadied from below. It was very dark, and he descended amidst some trees where it was darker still. When he touched the ground, at first, he could see nothing; but Ergalon turned on the light of a bull's-eye lantern. It was one of those Monella had brought with him, and lent by him to Ergalon. A voice, that he knew to be Zonella's, whispered, "That has been well done. Now what do you propose to do?" "I must get down to the canyon by which we came into the mountain. There we have left spare weapons. But I can't get down in the dark; not even, I fear, with the lantern." "There will be a moon later; perhaps that will help. Let us go in that direction." "What! you, too?" Jack asked in surprise. "Yes, why not? I shall be as safe with you as in the midst of Coryon's hateful minions, and I may be of service." "You couldn't climb down that place and up again," Jack reminded her. "Then I can wait near the top, and Ergalon can go with you to help you carry what you want." "But we shall be a long time, all day to-morrow." "No matter, I will manage." Then the three made their way with much difficulty, owing to the darkness, to the top of the canyon. Here they sat and talked in guarded voices till the moon had risen high enough to light the hazardous descent.