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They first passed along a passage flanked with other cells, similar to Jim's, that in which he had been confined being the last of a row, and then they came to an iron-studded door, which the prisoner was commanded to open. It opened at his touch, and the Englishman and his guard passed through it, finding themselves immediately upon the Union's lower deck.
The Mercury arrived at Ludlow long before Vanrenen crossed the Wye Bridge at Hereford. Medenham stopped the car at "The Feathers," that famous magpie among British Inns, where Cynthia admired and photographed some excellent woodcarving, and saw an iron-studded front door which has shut out revellers and the night on each alternate round of the clock since 1609, if not longer.
The great, gentle-eyed, long-horned kine were being driven in at the convent-yard to be milked by the lay-sisters; at another entrance, peasants, beggars, and sick were congregating; the bell from the lace-works spire rang out, and the Dauphiness led the way to the gateway, where, at her knock on the iron-studded door, a lay-sister looked through the wicket.
I ascended the steps, and stood before the arch filled with a great iron-studded oaken gate which led through a square tower into the court. I stood gazing for some minutes before I rang the bell. Two things in particular I noticed. The first was over the arch of the doorway, amongst others one device very like the animal's head upon the watch and the seal which my great-grandmother had given me.
He took the hint and maintained silence while they climbed down from the truck and approached the door of the building. It swung open as they approached. As they entered a strong garlic-like smell was evident. The hum of heavy machinery smote their ears. They were led down a corridor to a flight of steps. On the floor below they went along another corridor to a heavy iron-studded door.
Doors were not, as a rule, locked within the court, for though it contained from forty to fifty persons, they were all regarded as a single family, and it was enough to fasten the heavily bolted, iron-studded folding doors of the great gateway leading into Cheapside, the key being brought to the master like that of a castle, seven minutes, measured by the glass, after the last note of the curfew in the belfry outside St.
The leader pounds three times at the iron-studded door with the hilt of his dagger, a sleepy porter, grey-bearded and cloaked, slowly swings back one half of the gate and the ruffians troop in, followed by the waterman who has gone round the fortress to avoid the dead body. The gate shuts again, with a long thundering rumble.
Late as was the hour, improbable as was his success, he would try the house of his adopted father, the chaplain of St. Benoit. He ran all the way, and knocked timidly. There was no answer. He knocked again and again, taking heart with every stroke; and at last steps were heard approaching from within. A barred wicket fell open in the iron-studded door, and emitted a gush of yellow light.
On the whole, the two nuns decided to let him in, and then there was a jingling of keys and a clanking of iron bars and a grinding of locks, and presently a small door, cut and hung in one leaf of the great, iron-studded, wooden gate, was swung back. Sor Tommaso stooped and held his case before him, for the entrance was low and narrow. "God be praised!" he exclaimed, when he was fairly inside.
No, that at least was plainly impossible. I got up and walked about. Then for a change I paused by the window. I had stood a good while thus moodily looking out at the casement, when I became aware of two that walked slowly up the street and halted together before the great iron-studded door which led to the Red Tower. By the thirty thousand virgins Helene and Michael Texel!
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