Act iX: ...a narrow escape

If there are one pair of eyes, there are a hundred, gazing steadfastly at the intruders in the murky basement. Tadeo growls. But his timid self assertion is met with a chorus of caterwauling as well as being drowned out by boots stomping on the floorboards above.

As Lazarillo gropes for the Constitution, which he lost when he jumped, his hand touches some half-dead creature; and suddenly it occurs to him that they too may be left down there to go mad and die' Maybe that is what they do, those two strange men in the library'. just sit there and wait for victims...