"I will take you to a cell known only to myself, where this youth will be in perfect safety." Ascending the staircase, they passed through an arched door, and entered the great northern ambulatory.

Nizza gazed down for a moment into the nave, but all was buried in darkness, and no sound reached her to give her an idea that any one was below.

Proceeding towards the west, Solomon Eagle arrived at a small recess in the wall opposite one of the broad-arched openings looking into the nave, and entering it, pressed against a spring at the further extremity, and a stone door flying open, discovered a secret cell, on the floor of which his brazier was burning.
Depositing his burden on the floor, he said to Nizza, "He is now safe.
Go in search of proper assistance, and I will watch by him till you return." Nizza did not require a second exhortation, but quitting the cell, and noticing its situation, swiftly descended the winding staircase, and hurrying along the northern aisle, proceeded to a small chamber beneath the tower at its western extremity, which she knew was occupied by one of the vergers.

Speedily arousing him, she told him her errand, and implored him to remain on the watch till she returned with Doctor Hodges.

The verger promised compliance; and, opening a wicket in the great doorway, allowed her to go forth.