The noise which led me to this investigation, and which I regard as a signal from on high, brought me to a cellar I had never seen before, and knew not existed.

_That cellar lies immediately beneath the House of Lords._" "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Catesby.

"You think it would form a good depository for the powder." "If it had been built for the express purpose, it could not be better," returned Fawkes.

"It is commodious and dry, and in an out-of-the-way place, as you may judge, when we ourselves have never hitherto noticed it." "But what is all this to us, if we cannot use it ?" returned Catesby.
"We _can_ use it," replied Fawkes.

"It is ours." There was a general exclamation of surprise.
"Finding, on inquiry, that Bright was about to quit the neighbourhood," continued Fawkes, "and did not require the place longer, I instantly proposed to take it from him, and to create no suspicion, engaged it in Percy's name, stating that he wanted it for his own fuel." "You have done admirably," cried Catesby, in a tone of exultation.