"I can find no outlet.

Our foes will speedily force an entrance, and we must then fall into their hands." "There must be some door opening upon the roof, father," rejoined Catesby.

"Mount as high as you can, and search carefully.

I will defend the stairs, and will undertake to maintain my post against the whole rout." Thus urged, Garnet ascended the steps.

After the lapse of a few minutes, during which the thundering at the door below increased, and the heavy blows of some weighty implement directed against it, were distinctly heard, he cried, "I have found a door, but the bolts are rusty--I cannot move them." "Use all your strength, father," shouted Catesby, who having planted himself with his drawn sword at an advantageous point, was listening with intense anxiety to the exertions of the assailing party.