The words had hardly escaped her, when a loud and prolonged knocking, that made the building ring, was inflicted on the chapel-door.
“’Tis he! ’tis he!” screamed Evaline.
So speaking, she broke away from the priest, and darted towards the chapel-door. Before she could reach it, however, Sir Edgar, who was scarcely less agitated than she was, sprang after her, and arrived at the door first.
“Who knocks?” he demanded.
“In the name of our sovereign lady the Queen, open the door,” was the reply.
The voice was Bernard Gray’s.
CHAPTER IX.
Master Shedlock, on fastening the lower door of the hall behind him, in the manner set forth heretofore, resumed his progress, and passed on to the kitchen. There, as was already made manifest, he found Abigail and Zedekiah, whom his appearance quite diverted from their design of ejecting the cut onion.