"Shut the door.

I caught sight of horsemen riding through the trees.

Nay, they saw nothing." So they locked the massive door and barred it, and with beating hearts waited in the dark, expecting every moment to hear soldiers battering at its timbers.

But no sound came; the searchers, if such they were, had passed on to seek elsewhere.
Now while Wulf made shift to fasten up the horses near the mouth of the cave, Godwin gathered stones as large as he could lift, and piled them up against the door, till they knew that it would take many men an hour or more to break through.
For this door was banded with iron and set fast in the living rock..