But I found your boat here, and I hoped you would not cross the water in any other." "Why all this care ?" demanded Fawkes.

"Has aught happened ?--Is Viviana safe ?--Speak, man! do not keep me longer in suspense!" "Alas!" rejoined Chetham, "she is a prisoner." [Illustration: _Guy Fawkes laying the train_] "A prisoner!" ejaculated Fawkes, in a hollow voice.

"Then my forebodings were not without cause." "How has this happened ?" cried Catesby, who had listened to what was said in silent wonder.
Chetham then hastily related all that had taken place.
"I know not what has become of her," he said, in conclusion; "but I have heard that she was taken to the Star-Chamber by the Earl of Salisbury,--for he, it appears, was the companion of Topcliffe,--and, refusing to answer the interrogations of the Council, was conveyed to the Tower, and, I fear, subjected to the torture." "Tortured!" exclaimed Fawkes, horror-stricken; "Viviana tortured! And I have brought her to this! Oh, God! Oh, God!" "It is indeed an agonizing reflection," replied Humphrey Chetham, in a sombre tone, "and enough to drive you to despair.

Her last wishes, expressed only in looks, for she did not dare to give utterance to them, were that I should warn you not to approach the house at Lambeth, your enemies being concealed within it.

I have now fulfilled them.