`` Well , the dame 's staunch , '' he answered ; `` she 'll not tell upon you . We have time before us . '' And just then , as if to contradict his words , feet came down the corridor , and a fist beat roughly on the door . `` Here ! '' cried a voice . `` Open , Master Dick ; open ! '' Dick neither moved nor answered . `` It is all over , '' said the girl ; and she put her arms about Dick 's neck . One after another , men came trooping to the door . Then Sir Daniel arrived himself , and there was a sudden cessation of the noise . `` Dick , '' cried the knight , `` be not an ass . The Seven Sleepers had been awake ere now . We know she is within there . Open , then , the door , man . '' Dick was again silent . `` Down with it , '' said Sir Daniel . And immediately his followers fell savagely upon the door with foot and fist . Solid as it was , and strongly bolted , it would soon have given way ; but once more fortune interfered . Over the thunderstorm of blows the cry of a sentinel was heard ; it was followed by another ; shouts ran along the battlements , shouts answered out of the wood . In the first moment of alarm it sounded as if the foresters were carrying the Moat House by assault .
And Sir XXXXX and his men , desisting instantly from their attack upon Dick 's chamber , hurried to defend the walls .
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