CHAPTER II.
THE TRAITOR.
The habitation, to which the powder was conveyed, adjoined, as has already been stated, the Parliament House, and stood at the south-west corner of that structure.

It was a small building, two stories high, with a little garden attached to it, surrounded by lofty walls, and belonged to Whinneard, the keeper of the royal wardrobe, by whom it was let to a person named Ferris.

From the latter it was hired by Thomas Percy, one of the conspirators, and a relative of the Earl of Northumberland,--of whom it will be necessary to speak more fully hereafter,--for the purpose to which it was now put.
Having bestowed the barrels of powder carefully in the cellar, and fastened the door of the house and the garden-gate after them, the trio returned to the boat, and rowed back to Lambeth, where they arrived without being noticed.

They then threw themselves upon the floor, and sought some repose after their fatigue.
It was late in the day before they awoke.

Garnet and Oldcorne had been long astir; but Viviana had not quitted her chamber.