Ivanhoe, Chapter 25 summary
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In Chapter 25, the prisoners’ allies demand their release, and the castle’s defenders answer with a threat to execute them before noon. As armed supporters gather outside, Wamba volunteers to enter disguised as a friar and learn enough about the defenders to help the rescuers plan an attack.
What happens
- The Templar reads a challenge demanding the release of the captives and their property within an hour.
- Front-de-Bœuf warns that the English archers are dangerous and that most of the knights’ soldiers are in York.
- The Templar writes a reply rejecting the challenge and requesting a priest before the prisoners’ threatened execution.
- The Black Knight explains the French reply to the gathered rescuers, and Locksley calls the threat a delaying trick.
- The hermit refuses to act as confessor, but Wamba offers to use his own early religious training.
- Wamba puts on the hermit’s robe and departs, while Locksley prepares to prevent messages from leaving the castle.
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