Chapter 5 Summary

Chapter 5 - In God's Name: Inigo awakens in a moving carriage and is sure that he is being taken to the dungeons of the Holy Office, in Toledo. Outside the city of Toledo, Inigo is dragged from the carriage by Gualterio Malatesta, who hands him over to an escort from the Holy Office. For a moment, the Italian looks apologetically at the boy and tells him he is sorry. As Gualterio ducks back into his coach, Inigo asks about the captain. The scowl on the man's face is enough to convince Inigo that Alatriste escaped.

Inigo is taken into the dungeons where he is stripped and searched before a preliminary interrogation. He is asked for the names of his progenitors, going back three generations, and quizzed on elementary Christian knowledge, such as the recitation of the Lord's Prayer and the Ave Maria. He...