CHAPTER 11. FETTERS BROKEN

Then long and loud the victor shout From turret and from tower rang out; The rugged walls replied. SCOTT, Lord of the Isles.

'Sir, I have something to show you.'

It was the early twilight of a summer's morning when Ringan crept up to the shelter of pine branches under which George Douglas was sleeping, after hotly opposing Gebhardt, who had nearly persuaded his master that retreat was inevitable, unless he meant to be deserted by more than half his men.

George sat up. 'Anent the ladies?' he said.

Ringan bowed his head, with an air of mystery and George doubted no longer, but let him lead the way, keeping among the brushwood to the foot of the quarry whence the castle had been built. It had once been absolutely precipitous, no doubt, but the stone was of a soft quality, on which weather told: ivy and creepers had grown on it, and Ringan pointed to what to dwellers on plains might have seemed impracticable, but to those who had bird's-nested on the crags of Tantallon had quite a different appearance. True, there was castle wall and turret above, but on this, the weather side, there had likewise been a slight crumbling, which had been neglected, perhaps from over security, perhaps on account of the extreme difficulty of repairing, where there was the merest ledge for foothold above the precipitous quarry; indeed, the condition of the place might never even have been perceived by the inhabitants, as there were no traces of the place below having been frequented.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Ringan
2. George
3. The castle
4. It was soft.
5. ivy and creepers
6. no
7. People from Tantallon
8. Yes
9. The weather side
10. Had been neglected
11. Difficult to repair
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. No
15. Under some pines
16. Sleeping
17. Argued with Gebhardt
18. Morning
19. No
1. Who bowed his head?
2. Who followed him to the edge of the quarry?
3. What had been erected there?
4. How hard was the stone?
5. What was growing up it?
6. Would people who live on land think the castle was practical?
7. What people would have?
8. Was the castle falling down on one side?
9. Which side?
10. What's one likely cause of that?
11. What else may have happened to cause it?
12. Did the castle have a turret?
13. Was it sitting low to the ground?
14. Did the castle seem like it had ever had anyone in it?
15. Where was George when Ringan first approached him?
16. What was George doing in there?
17. What had he done before that?
18. What time of day was it?
19. Was it winter?