`` The chamber above the chapel ! '' gasped the priest . `` That same , '' replied the knight . `` So if ye desire to save him , save him ; and if ye desire not , prithee , go to , and let me be at peace ! For an I had been a hasty man , I would already have put my sword through you , for your intolerable cowardice and folly . Have ye chosen ? Say ! '' `` I have chosen , '' said the priest . `` Heaven pardon me , I will do evil for good . I will swear for the lad 's sake . '' `` So is it best ! '' said Sir Daniel . `` Send for him , then , speedily . Ye shall see him alone . Yet I shall have an eye on you . I shall be here in the panel room . '' The knight raised the arras and let it fall again behind him . There was the sound of a spring opening ; then followed the creaking of trod stairs . Sir Oliver , left alone , cast a timorous glance upward at the arras-covered wall , and crossed himself with every appearance of terror and contrition . `` Nay , if he is in the chapel room , '' the priest murmured , `` were it at my soul 's cost , I must save him . ''
Three minutes later , Dick , who had been summoned by another messenger , found Sir XXXXX standing by the hall table , resolute and pale .
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