Then, with the Albanian going first, they
went down to the warden's chamber. When the warden saw all these
men coming he got up, completely naked, took a sword in his hand
and tried to defend himself. Tirant swung an axe down on his
head and split it in half, and his brains fell out onto the
ground. His wife began to scream, and the Albanian, who was
nearest did the same thing to her that Tirant had done to her
husband. Afterward they went through the castle, and shot the
bolts on the doors to the chambers, and the noise of the drums
was so loud that no one heard a sound.
They went up to the towers and the guards there thought they were
the watch, and said nothing to them. And when they came near
they threw them off the castle through the merlons. One of them
fell onto the barbican and into the moat, and was saved. Soon he
got up and went shouting through the villa and everyone woke up.
The news spread through the villa, but in the castle they still
did not know, except for one man who was fishing.
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