“Why, that is our bedroom, the room that we are in now!” Audry exclaimed. “Do let us try and find it.”
“Wait a moment; the book will probably tell us all about it,” and Aline resumed her reading.
“‘There is a third method of approach from the store-chamber or closet on the ground floor in the southeast corner of the lower quadrangle.’”
“That is the treasury, where the silver and the other plate is kept,” said Audry; “go on.”
“‘In the corner of the library that goeth round behind the newel stair there is a great oaken coffer that is fastened to the floor, in the which are the charters and the license to crenellate[5] and sundry other parchments.’”
[5] To make battlements or crenellations. A house could not be fortified without a royal license.
“Oh, I have often wondered what was in that kist,” said Audry; “how really exciting things have become at last, but I want to find out the way to get down from our room; do go on.”
THE OLD SWORD-KIST.