Chapter Six Summary

Carraciola, Christiansen, and Thomas are brought in handcuffs to the cable car station by eight heavily armed guards. Smith and Schaffer make their way to the roof of the station and lower themselves onto the top of the cable car itself as it starts up the mountain towards the castle, holding onto the suspension bracket to keep from falling off. In Schloss Adler, Mary makes her way to an unoccupied room directly beneath the castle's cable car station. Even though she still believes Smith is dead, she uses a pair of binoculars Heidi gave her to watch the cable car through a window as it comes up the mountain, and can just make out the two men on the top of it. When they reach the castle station the two men jump up onto the ice covered, sloping leading edge of...