The Hunchback of Notre Dame Book 8 Chapter II - Continuation of the Crown which was Changed into a DryLeaf

In which a gentle, fair maiden, ensnared by sombre accusations, is led through the shadowed corridors of a forbidding tower to a chamber of infernal implements, where human cruelty is both ritual and theatre. Here, beneath the crimson glare of firelight, she confronts a dreadful ordeal designed to wrest truth from silence, her fragile spirit weighed against the grim machinery of justice.