He heard the
noise and opened the windows of his chamber, and he heard many
people inside the castle. Then he began to cry out, and his
shouts were heard by those in the castle, but when they tried to
leave their chambers they found the doors bolted. The king, who
had been sleeping in the main tower, barricaded himself there
with the queen and a chamber-maid.
When day broke they put many flags on the castle towers, and held
great celebrations. All the outsiders in the villa fled. When
the commander saw that the castle had been taken and saw the
others fleeing, he attacked them and took many prisoners. When
he returned, they stationed many men in the villa and others on
the barbicans and in the orchards near the villa. When the
commander went up to the castle he saw that none of his men had
been killed or wounded, and he was the most astonished man in the
world: he thought Tirant must be more angel than human, because
nothing that he tried turned out to be impossible.
They searched the entire castle and found it full of many kinds
of food: millet and wheat, sorghum and panic-grass--enough to
last seven years, with a sparkling spring of water that came out
of a rock.
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