A Grand Surprise.
Roy had to go the whole round of the ramparts that night before he found Ben, who had always been visiting the parts he reached a few minutes before. But he came upon him at length, just at the door-way of the south-east tower, where it opened upon the southern rampart between that place and the great gate-way.
“Ladyship says I’m to have the garden to turn back to a proper court-yard?” said Ben, after hearing his master’s report.
“Yes.”
“And Master Pawson is turning out of his chamber, but he is to keep the lower place?”
“Yes; that is the arrangement, Ben; and you can have the upper chamber for use at once.”
“Well, that’s a good thing for the men who’ll be up there, sir; but what does Master Pawson want with that lower room? I meant to have three firelock men there.”
“Be content with what you can have, Ben. My mother did not want to be too hard upon Master Pawson.”
“No, sir; she wouldn’t be. But you’ve come all round the ramparts?”
“Yes.”