Started out to seem like one of those exploitation fliks lots of naked ladies, dodgy doctors, even dodgier prison warders, yes this is what happens in the first half hour or so, but actually it turns out to have a fairly good ,if not basic, story line.

He's been out three days now, and the warders watch every road and every station, but they've had no sight of him yet.

When he dragged himself here one night, weary and starving, with the warders hard at his heels, what could we do?

I suppose we shall have an evil account of the herd; he was wont to be a faithful and cautious drudge, and I had destined him for something better; perchance I might even have made him one of my warders."

then back towards the castle, he threw the piece of gold towards the donor, exclaiming at the same time, "False Norman, thy money perish with thee!"Front-de-Boeuf heard the words imperfectly, but the action was suspicious--"Archers," he called to the warders on the outward battlements, "send me an arrow through yon monk's frock!--yet stay," he said, as his retainers were bending their bows, "it avails not--we must thus far trust him since we have no better shift.

From the speeches of those men who were my warders just now, I learn that I am a prisoner, and, if I judge aright of the loud hoarse voice which even now dispatched them hence on some military duty, I am in the castle of Front-de-Boeuf--If so, how will this end, or how can I protect Rowena and my father?"

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