Treason > Guy Fawkes, or The history of the gunpowder plot

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.
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nary courage' which he had displayed through¬
out the transaction, took up his station in the
cellar. Thus they passed three days of anxiety
and suspense.
On the Monday afternoon, the Lord Cham¬
berlain, whose duty it was to see that all the
arrangements for the meeting of Parliament
were complete, went to the Parliament House,
accompanied by Lord Mounteagle, who, it was
said, expressed a desire to be present at the
search. They first went into the Parliament
Chamber, and remained there a considerable
time; and then, for the alleged purpose of
looking for some stuff of the King’s, they visit¬
ed the vaults and cellars under the house.
They remarked the great store of coals and
wood there, and perceived Fawkes standing in
a corner. The Lord Chamberlain, with affect¬
ed carelessness, inquired to whom this unusu¬
ally large provision of fuel belonged ; and being
informed that the cellar and its contents be¬
longed to Percy, and that he had rented it for
about a year and a half, retired without mak¬
ing any more particular search, to report his
observations to the King. On their way, Lord
Mounteagle expressed his fears and suspicions
on the ground, that, though he was an intimate
friend of Percy, and bad lived with him for
many years on terms of familiarity, he had not
the least notion that he ever inhabited this
house. Upon hearing the statement of the
Lord Chamberlain, who declared the store of
coals and wood to be beyond all proportion to
the wants of a person who dwelt so little in the
house as Percy, and that the man (Fawkes) in
the cellar looked like ‘ a very tall and desperate
fellow,’ it was determined by the King, with