Q. Where were you received? A. In the audience chamber of Solomon.
Q. How were you received? A. I was hoodwinked and conducted by the Master of Ceremonies to the door of the Chapter, where he gave eight and one distinct knocks.
Q. To what do those knocks allude? A. To the number of the nine elect.
Q. How were those knocks answered? A. By eight and one from within.
Q. What followed? A. I was asked, "Who comes there?"
Q. Your answer? A. A companion, to whose lot it has fallen to accompany the stranger in search of the assassins of Hiram Abiff.
Q. What followed? A. I was conducted by the hand to the west, and asked by the Most Potent, what I wanted.
Q. Your answer? A. To be made an Elected Knight.
Q. What then followed? A. I was asked if I had courage to go in pursuit of the assassins of Hiram Abiff, which question I answered in the affirmative, and was addressed by the Most Potent in the following manner:—"If you have, you shall be shown the place where one of his murderers lies concealed; a stranger has discovered it to me, and if you have resolution, follow this stranger."
Q. What was then done to you? A. The Master of Ceremonies led me out of the Chapter, by intricate roads, and at last seated me on a stone, and thus addressed me:—"I am going to leave you, but be of good cheer, I shall not be long absent; when I am gone, you must take the bandage off your eyes, and drink some water from the fountain beside you, that you may be refreshed after so fatiguing a journey."