`` A new chamber ? '' he repeated . `` Wherefore so ? What chamber ? '' '' 'T is one above the chapel , '' answered the messenger . `` 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 XXXXX was at length fairly come , Throgmorton was led to a room overlooking an angle of the moat .
Dick House John ROOM before betoken eyes forebodings morning night