`` It hath stood long empty , '' said Dick , musing . `` What manner of room is it ? '' `` Nay , a brave room , '' returned the man . `` But yet '' -- lowering his voice -- `` they call it haunted . '' `` Haunted ? '' repeated Dick , with a chill . `` I have not heard of it . Nay , then , and by whom ? '' The messenger looked about him ; and then , in a low whisper , `` By the sacrist of St. John 's , '' he said . `` They had him there to sleep one night , and in the morning -- whew ! -- he was gone . The devil had taken him , they said ; the more betoken , he had drunk late the night before . '' Dick followed the man with black forebodings . CHAPTER III -- THE ROOM OVER THE CHAPEL From the battlements nothing further was observed . The sun journeyed westward , and at last went down ; but , to the eyes of all these eager sentinels , no living thing appeared in the neighbourhood of Tunstall House . When the night was at length fairly come , Throgmorton was led to a room overlooking an angle of the moat . Thence he was lowered with every precaution ; the ripple of his swimming was audible for a brief period ; then a black figure was observed to land by the branches of a willow and crawl away among the grass . For some half hour Sir Daniel and Hatch stood eagerly giving ear ; but all remained quiet . The messenger had got away in safety . Sir Daniel 's brow grew clearer .
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