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In the meantime, Mr Baltic, proceeding in his grave way towards Eastgate, had fallen in with Gabriel coming from The Derby Winner. As yet the two had never met, and save the name, young Pendle knew nothing about the ex-sailor. Nevertheless, when face to face with him, he recognised the man at once as a private inquiry agent whom he had once spoken to in Whitechapel.
Afterwards the north-west tower pier was erected at the junction of the transept and the nave, and, finally, there is a discussion as to whether the northern tower arch was built now or not until later. We are told that all this work, begun by Richard de Eastgate, was almost finished by Thomas de Mepeham, who became sacrist in 1255.
William's tomb, which have been alluded to above, were especially needed and especially acceptable. Within the first half of the thirteenth century, but certainly several years later than the entry into the choir, further great works were begun by the monk and sacrist Richard de Eastgate.
A lady of our acquaintance remembers, when a schoolgirl at Rochester, exploring part of a vaulted tunnel running in the direction of the castle from Eastgate House, which in those days was a school, and had not yet received the distinction of being the "Nun's House" of Edwin Drood. Some way along, the passage was blocked by the skeleton of a donkey!
Still, this might serve as a peg whereon to hang his inquiries and develop further information, so the chaplain, after meditating over his five-o'clock cup of tea, took his way to the Eastgate, in order to put Gabriel unawares into the witness-box. Yet, for all these doings and suspicions Cargrim had no very good reason, save his own desire to get Dr Pendle under his thumb.
"What more?" demanded the abbot, seeing that the monk appeared to hesitate. "Nay, I know not whether the rest of the rhymes may please you, lord abbot," replied Father Eastgate. "Let me hear them, and I will judge," said Paslew. Thus urged, the monk went on: "'One shall sit at a solemn feast, Half warrior, half priest, The greatest there shall be the least."
It has been prophesied that a 'worm with one eye' shall work the redemption of the fallen faith, and you know that Robert Aske hath been deprived of his left orb by an arrow." "Therefore it is," observed Father Eastgate, "that the Pilgrims of Grace chant the following ditty: "'Forth shall come an Aske with one eye, He shall be chief of the company Chief of the northern chivalry."
"The last verse," observed the monk, "has been added to the ditty by Nicholas Demdike. I heard him sing it the other day at the abbey gate." "What, Nicholas Demdike of Worston?" cried the abbot; "he whose wife is a witch?" "The same," replied Eastgate.
It was tea-time in Priorsford: four-thirty by the clock on a chill October afternoon. The hills circling the little town were shrouded with mist. The wide bridge that spanned the Tweed and divided the town proper the Highgate, the Nethergate, the Eastgate from the residential part was almost deserted. On the left bank of the river, Peel Tower loomed ghostly in the gathering dusk.
All this was noted by Cargrim, who carefully strove, by sympathetic looks and dexterous remarks, to bring his superior to the much-desired point of unburdening his mind. Gabriel had returned to his lodgings near the Eastgate, and to his hopeless task of civilising his degraded centaurs.
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