[Guy Fawkes by William Harrison Ainsworth]@TWC D-Link bookGuy Fawkes CHAPTER VI 14/20
"She will die a martyr for us." He then proposed that they should pray for her deliverance.
And all instantly assenting, they knelt down, while Garnet poured forth the most earnest supplications to the Virgin in her behalf. The next morning, Guy Fawkes set forth, and ascertained that Humphrey Chetham's statement was correct, and that Viviana was indeed a prisoner in the Tower.
He repaired thither, and tried to ascertain in what part of the fortress she was confined, in the hope of gaining admittance to her.
But as he could obtain no information and his inquiries excited suspicion, he was compelled to return without accomplishing his object. Crossing Tower Hill on his way back, he turned to glance at the stern pile he had just quitted, and which was fraught with the most fearful interest to him, when he perceived Chetham issue from the Bulwark Gate. He would have made up to him; but the young merchant, who had evidently seen him, though he looked sedulously another way, set off in the direction of the river, and was quickly lost to view.
Filled with the gloomiest thoughts, Guy Fawkes proceeded to Westminster, where he arrived without further adventure of any kind. In the latter part of the same day, as the conspirators were conferring together, they were alarmed by a knocking at the outer gate; and sending Bates to reconnoitre, he instantly returned with the intelligence that it was Lord Mounteagle.
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