the utmost freedom allowed to me.
Although I had been taken away with such secrecy, I knew that before long
there would be pursuit. So I waited with what patience I could. I was
allowed to go on the upper platform--a consideration due, I am convinced,
to my captors' wish for their own comfort rather than for mine.

It was not very cheering, for during the daytime I had satisfied myself
that it would be quite impossible for even a younger and more active man
than I am to climb the walls. They were built for prison purposes, and a
cat could not find entry for its claws between the stones. I resigned
myself to my fate as well as I could. Wrapping my blanket round me, I
lay down and looked up at the sky. I wished to see it whilst I could. I
was just dropping to sleep--the unutterable silence of the place broken
only now and again by some remark by my captors in the rooms below
me--when there was a strange appearance just over me--an appearance so
strange that I sat up, and gazed with distended eyes.

Across the top of the tower, some height above, drifted, slowly and
silently, a great platform. Although the night was dark, it was so much
darker where I was within the hollow of the Tower that I could actually
see what was above me. I knew it was an aeroplane--one of which I had
seen in Washington. A man was seated in the centre, steering; and beside
him was a silent figure of a woman all wrapped in white. It made my
heart beat to see her, for she was figured something like my Teuta, but
broader, less shapely. She leaned over, and a whispered "Ssh!" crept
down to me. I answered in similar way. Whereupon she rose, and the man
lowered her down into the Tower. Then I saw that it was my dear daughter
who had come in this wonderful way to save me. With infinite haste she
helped me to fasten round my waist a belt attached to a rope, which was
coiled round her; and then the man, who was a giant in strength as well
as stature, raised us both to the platform of the aeroplane, which he set
in motion without an instant's delay.

Within a few seconds, and without any discovery being made of my escape,
we were speeding towards the sea. The lights of Ilsin were in front of
us. Before reaching the town, however, we descended in the midst of a
little army of my own people, who were gathered ready to advance upon the
Silent Tower, there to effect, if necessary, my rescue by force. Small
chance would there have been of my l