The other example is at Irnham Hall, Lincolnshire. "The situation of this ingeniously-contrived place had been forgotten, though it was well known to exist somewhere in the mansion, till it was discovered a few years ago. In going round the chimney-stacks, it was observed that one of the chimneys of a cluster was without any smoke or any blackness, and as clean as when the masonry was new. This led to the conjecture that it was not in reality a chimney, but an open shaft to give light and air to the priest's hiding-place; yet so forming one of a group of chimneys as to obviate all suspicion of its real purpose. It was carefully examined, and the conjecture fully borne out by the discovery of the long-lost hiding-place. The opening into it was found by removing a beam behind a single step between two servants' bed-rooms. You then come to a panel which has a very small iron tube let into it, through which any message could be conveyed to the occupant of the hiding-place. This panel being removed, a ladder of four steps leads down into the secret chamber.... The hiding-place is 8 feet long by 5 feet broad, and just high enough to allow of standing upright."--_Notes and Queries_, 1st S., xii. Other instances occur at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; Sawston Hall, Cambridgeshire; Coldham Hall, Suffolk; Maple Durham, Watcomb, and Ufton Court, Berkshire; Stonyhurst and Berwick Hall, Lancashire; Bourton, Gloucestershire; Henlip, Worcestershire; Chelvey Court, Somerset; Nether Witton, Northumberland; Paxhill, Sussex (built by Sir Andrew Borde, jester of Henry VIII., and the original of "Merry Andrew"); Treago, Hereford; Weybridge, Surrey; Woodcote, Hampshire; and elsewhere. In several of these instances the secret chamber was formed in the roof of the house, and in two cases at least it was accompanied by a small chapel. [2] Fairies. [3] The reader can appraise this ghost-story at what he thinks it worth. It is not the produce of the author's imagination, but may be found reported in the translation of the _Chronicon Roberti Montensis_, by John Stowe, Harl. MS., 545, fol. 190, _b_. [4] In this way the more timid of the Jacobites drank the toast of "The King over the water." [5] Dean Goode's "Rome's Tactics," pp. 50-53. III. ALONE IN THE WORLD. "Speechless Sorrow sat with me; I was sighing wearily: Lamp and fire were out; the rain Wildly beat the window-pane. In the dark we heard a knock, And a hand was on the lock; One in waiting spake to me, Saying sweetly, 'I am come to sup with thee.' "All my room was dark and damp,-- 'Sorrow,' said I, 'trim the lamp; Light the fire and cheer thy face; Set the guest-chair in its place.' And again I heard the knock; In the dark I found the lock,-- 'Enter, I have turned the key-- Enter, stranger, Who art come to sup with me.'