They heard the footsteps of a man following them who seemed to keep in the shadow, but took no heed, since they set him down as some wretched thief who would never dare to attack three armed men.

It did not occur to them that this was none other than the notary Basil, clad in a new robe, who for purposes of his own was spying upon their movements.
They came to a large, ruinous-looking house, of which the gateway attracted Grey Dick's sharp eyes.
"What does that entrance remind you of, master ?" he asked.
Hugh looked at it carelessly and answered: "Why, of the Preceptory at Dunwich.

See, there are the same arms upon the stone shield.

Doubtless once the Knights Templar dwelt there.

Sir Andrew may have visited this place in his youth." As the words left his lips two men came out of the gateway, one of them a physician to judge by the robe and the case of medicines which he carried; the other a very tall person wrapped in a long cloak.