He took a quick glance outside the door and seeing no one but Bjarkë who waited outside, he led Stuart in the opposite direction from the stairs. Bjarkë had a long rope and he followed. Reaching a window on a wall close to the woods, Thorburn took the rope and tied one end to a decorative crenelation in the window and lowered the other end to the ground.

"Go down the rope and wait for me in the shadows at the bottom," Thorburn ordered.

Stuart did as instructed and shortly after he reached the ground, Thorburn crouched beside him. The rope disappeared back up the wall and the window closed....