I also told her to remain in readiness to draw up the keys when they should have served their purpose.

Then I took them and ran to the stone footbridge where I found four Rutland men who had come in response to the message Dawson had sent by Jennie Faxton.

Two of the men went with me, and we entered the lower garden by the southwest postern.

Thence we crept noiselessly to the terrace and made our entrance into the Hall by "Dorothy's Postern." I had in my life engaged in many questionable and dangerous enterprises, but this was my first attempt at house-breaking.

To say that I was nervous would but poorly define the state of my feelings.