“Can you? will you?” she exclaimed, eagerly. “Oh, yes, I can trust you fully!”
“But how did you get in here?” she asked, the next instant.
“I have been here many times, and yet I never entered by that door,” he answered, pointing to the door by which Brownie had come in, and speaking somewhat bitterly.
“But how did you know I was here?” and she looked perplexed, for she could not detect so much as a rathole anywhere.
“I overheard all that passed between you and those women,” he answered, with a nod in the direction of Isabel’s room.
She looked more astonished than ever.
“Come this way and I will explain it all to you,” he said.
He stooped and picked up the candle, and then moved with difficulty to the opposite end of the cell.
Holding the light close to the floor, he continued:
“Do you see that semi-circular block of stone about a foot and a half in diameter?”