He knocked three times with the right knocker, causing three loud echoing booms, at the same time as Inga (with her low bodice revealing the tops of her breasts) was assisted down from the hay cart by Dr.As the killer approached, she laid in a coffin (the one that Michael had earlier dug up in the cemetery) ready to accept death.Cobby serves himself a drink of liquor and toasts as he rationalizes:Well, here""s to the drink habit.The officer calls his name twice to get his attention - he is distracted by looking toward Jim in the adjoining hallway.Tens of thousands of men died here.The ravine down here was piled twelve deep with dead and wounded men.The little river below was swollen red, a raging torrent of blood.And that high hill yonder where Engineer Poelzig now lives, was the site of Fort Marmorus.He built his home on its very foundations.Marmorus, he greatest graveyard in the world.The tourist bus skids on the muddy road and goes off into a ravine.The coach overturns and the driver is killed in the accident.Joan is pulled unconscious from the wreckage and carried by Werdegast""s servant.The four travelers make their way on foot in the storm to the expected destination of the doctor, the cliff-top fortress-like home of renowned Austrian architect Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff).