Garnet darted up the steps; but Catesby lingered to make fast the door, and thus oppose some obstacle to the hostile party.

His efforts, however, were unexpectedly checked, and, on examination, he found it was hooked to the wall at the back.

Undoing the fastening, the door swung to, and he instantly bolted it.

Overjoyed at his success, and leaving his pursuers, who at this moment arrived, to vent their disappointment in loud menaces, he hastened after Garnet.

Calling loudly to him, he was answered from a small dark chamber on the right, into which the priest had retreated.
"We have but prolonged our torture," groaned Garnet.