You will find no one with her but Father Oldcorne, and I need scarcely add, it will gladden me to the heart to find on my return that she has yielded to your entreaties." "I cannot thank you," cried Chetham, warmly grasping his hand; "but I hope to find some means of evincing my gratitude." "Prove it by maintaining the strictest secresy as to all you may see or hear,--or even suspect,--within the dwelling you are about to visit," returned Guy Fawkes.

"Knowing that I am dealing with a man of honour, I require no stronger obligation than your word." "You have it," replied Chetham, solemnly.
"Your worship shall have my oath, if you desire it," remarked Martin Heydocke.
"No," rejoined Fawkes; "your master will answer for your fidelity." Shortly after this, Guy Fawkes pulled ashore, and his companions landed.
After pointing out the solitary habitation, which possessed greater interest in Humphrey Chetham's eyes than the proud structures he had just quitted, and extracting a promise that the young merchant would not approach it till the morrow, he rowed off, and while the others proceeded to Lambeth in search of lodging for the night, made the best of his way to the little creek, and entered the house.
He found the other conspirators anxiously awaiting his arrival, and the certainty afforded by his presence that the powder had been landed in safety gave general satisfaction.

Preparations were immediately made for another voyage.

A large supply of provisions, consisting of baked meat of various kinds, hard-boiled eggs, pasties, bread, and other viands, calculated to serve for a week's consumption, without the necessity of having recourse to any culinary process, and which had been previously procured with that view, together with a few flasks of wine, occupied the place in the boat lately assigned to the powder.

At the risk of overloading the vessel, they likewise increased its burthen by a quantity of mining implements--spades, pickaxes, augers, and wrenching irons.