Without seeking for it he came upon the old Town Hall.
Numbers of people were congregated in the Market Place outside, and crowds were hurrying up from the adjacent streets.

Robbie had only once been in Carlisle before, but he felt convinced that these must be unaccustomed occurrences.

He asked a townsman standing near him what the tumult meant.

The man could tell him nothing.

Then he asked another and another spectator of the scene in which there appeared to be nothing to see, but all seemed as ignorant as himself.