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Kenilworthstair of great height, preceded by one of the old women witha lamp. At the head of the stair, which seemed of almost immeasurableheight, they crossed a short wooden gallery, formedof black oak, and very narrow, at the farther end of which wasa strong oaken door, which opened and admitted them intothe miser’s apartment, homely in its accommodations in thevery last degree, and, except in name, little different from aprison-room.Foster stopped at the door, and gave the lamp to the Countess,without either offering or permitting the attendance of theold woman who had carried it. The lady stood not on ceremony,but taking it hastily, barred the door, and secured itwith the ample means provided on the inside for that purpose.Varney, meanwhile, had lurked behind on the stairs; buthearing the door barred, he now came up on tiptoe, and Foster,winking to him, pointed with self-complacence to a pieceof concealed machinery in the wall, which, playing with muchease and little noise, dropped a part of the wooden gallery,after the manner of a drawbridge, so as to cut off all communicationbetween the door of the bedroom, which he usuallyinhabited, and the landing-place of the high, winding stairwhich ascended to it. The rope by which this machinery waswrought was generally carried within the bedchamber, it beingFoster’s object to provide against invasion from without;but now that it was intended to secure the prisoner within,the cord had been brought over to the landing-place, and wasthere made fast, when Foster with much complacency haddropped the unsuspected trap-door.Varney looked with great attention at the machinery, andpeeped more than once down the abyss which was opened bythe fall of the trap-door. It was dark as pitch, and seemedprofoundly deep, going, as Foster informed his confederatein a whisper, nigh to the lowest vault of the Castle. Varneycast once more a fixed and long look down into this sablegulf, and then followed Foster to the part of the manor-housemost usually inhabited.When they arrived in the parlour which we have mentioned,Varney requested Foster to get them supper, and some of thechoicest wine. “I will seek Alasco,” he added; “we have workfor him to do, and we must put him in good heart.”Foster groaned at this intimation, but made no remonstrance.The old woman assured Varney that Alasco had scarce458
Sir Walter Scotteaten or drunken since her master’s departure, living perpetuallyshut up in the laboratory, and talking as if the world’scontinuance depended on what he was doing there.“I will teach him that the world hath other claims on him,”said Varney, seizing a light, and going in quest of the alchemist.He returned, after a considerable absence, very pale, butyet with his habitual sneer on his cheek and nostril. “Ourfriend,” he said, “has exhaled.”“How!—what mean you?” said Foster—”run away—fledwith my forty pounds, that should have been multiplied athousand-fold? I will have Hue and Cry!”“I will tell thee a surer way,” said Varney.“How!—which way?” exclaimed Foster; “I will have backmy forty pounds—I deemed them as surely a thousand timesmultiplied—I will have back my in-put, at the least.”“Go hang thyself, then, and sue Alasco in the Devil’s Courtof Chancery, for thither he has carried the cause.”“How!—what dost thou mean is he dead?”“Ay, truly is he,” said Varney; “and properly swollen alreadyin the face and body. He had been mixing some of his devil’smedicines, and the glass mask which he used constantly hadfallen from his face, so that the subtle poison entered the brain,and did its work.”“Sancta Maria!” said Foster—”I mean, God in His mercypreserve us from covetousness and deadly sin!—Had he nothad projection, think you? Saw you no ingots in the crucibles?”“Nay, I looked not but at the dead carrion,” answered Varney;“an ugly spectacle—he was swollen like a corpse three daysexposed on the wheel. Pah! give me a cup of wine.”“I will go,” said Foster, “I will examine myself—” He tookthe lamp, and hastened to the door, but there hesitated andpaused. “Will you not go with me?” said he to Varney.“To what purpose?” said Varney; “I have seen and smelledenough to spoil my appetite. I broke the window, however,and let in the air; it reeked of sulphur, and such like suffocatingsteams, as if the very devil had been there.”“And might it not be the act of the demon himself?” saidFoster, still hesitating; “I have heard he is powerful at suchtimes, and with such people.”“Still, if it were that Satan of thine,” answered Varney, “whothus jades thy imagination, thou art in perfect safety, unlesshe is a most unconscionable devil indeed. He hath had two459
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