The round at that very moment debauched upon the terrace and proceeded to summon him with shouts and curses. He heard them ferreting in the dark corners; the stock of a lance even rattled along the outer surface of the door behind which he stood; but these gentlemen were in too high a humour to be long delayed and soon made off down a corkscrew pathway which had escaped Denis's observation and passed out of sight and hearing along the battlements of the town.