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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 2: Denounced
18/39

"You may want money, sir.
Should you want more, there is a store hidden away, in the hiding place under the floor of the Priest's Chamber, at the other end of the passage.

Do you know that ?" "I know the Priest's Chamber of course, because you go through that to get to the long passage, but I don't know of any special hiding place there." "Doubtless, Sir Marmaduke did not think it necessary to show it you then, sir, but he would have done it later on, so I do not consider that I am breaking my oath of secrecy in telling you.

You know the little narrow loophole in the corner ?" "Yes, of course.

There is no other that gives light to the room.

It is hidden from view outside by the ivy." "Well, sir, you count four bricks below that, and you press hard on the next, that is the fifth, then you will hear a click, then you press hard with your heel at the corner, in the angle of the flag below, and you will find the other corner rise.


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