Odd POV

Something odd happens to the point of view in Poul Anderson's "The Plague of Masters," Chapter V. At the end of IV, the viewpoint character, Dominic Flandry, recently arrived in Kompong Timur, capital city of the human colony planet, Unan Besar, has been apprehended and is to be taken somewhere blindfolded. V begins by describing the lively scene on the first floor of the Tavern Called Swampman's Ease in the Canal of the Fiery Snake so you would think that Flandry has been taken to that tavern, has had his blindfold removed and is seeing what is happening there? He is not.

"Flandry could hear enough of the racket to know he was in some such place. But there were probably a hundred like it, and his eyes had only been unbandaged when he reached this second-floor room."
-Poul Anderson, "The Plague of Masters" IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 1-147 AT V, p. 32.

So the opening paragraph of the chapter directly informs the reader about what the viewpoint character is not seeing. A narrative that had stayed with the viewpoint character's pov would have told us what Flandry felt, heard and smelled as he was taken into the building and up one flight of stairs.