A massive door was first unlocked, and in a large room were seen ranged vessels of gold and silver; strong boxes containing gold necklaces, armlets, and other ornaments; while on lower shelves were bars of gold and silver, ready to be worked up.
They passed through this room into another the same size.

Around it ran deep shelves, in which were piled the treasury papers; with the accounts of the royal revenues, and the tributes paid by the various cities and villages and land owners of the kingdom.

In one corner stood a small cupboard of about four feet high, also filled with papers.

The queen put her hand inside, and touched a small spring at the back.
"Now," she said to Roger; "pull at that corner of the cupboard." He obeyed her instructions, and at a vigorous pull the cupboard, which had appeared solidly embedded in the wall, swung round on one of its angles.

Nothing, however, was to be seen save a bare wall behind it.
"Now, Roger Hawkshaw, take your dagger and cut away that plaster--for it is but plaster, though it looks like stone." Roger obeyed.