"In that old house, which you see yonder, Hulme Hall, I was born.

I would willingly take one look at it before I die." [Illustration: Guy Fawkes in Ordsall Cave] "And the other hall, which I discern through the trees, is Ordsall, is it not ?" inquired the soldier.
"It is," replied the prophetess.

"And now let us make what haste we can.
We have not far to go; and I feel I shall not last long." Descending the eminence, and again entering the lane, which here made a turn, the soldier approached a grassy space, walled in on either side by steep sandstone rocks.

At the further extremity of the enclosure, after a moment's search, by the direction of his companion, he found, artfully concealed by overhanging brushwood, the mouth of a small cave.

He crept into the excavation, and found it about six feet high, and of considerable depth.