I replied, 'To Douglas, to prepare for the coming of its lord.' The hall was full of armed men in Athol's colors.

Not one of the remnant who had followed my patron from the bloody field of Dunbar was visible.

Athol looked round on his myrmidons: 'Here,' cried he, 'see that you speed this fellow on his journey.

We shall provide lodgings for his master.' I foresaw danger to Lord Douglas, but I durst not attempt to warn him of it; and, to secure my charge, which a return to the room might have hazarded, I hastened into the courtyard, and being permitted to mount my horse, set off at full speed.
"On arriving at this place, I remembered the secret closet, and carefully deposited the box within it.

A week passed, without any tidings of Lord Douglas.