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|maness," he says,aftor living amonget the secret pates and kiding-places of our dear old home? How often have I trembl od with fear at the sound of my own foot-[ stops when I ventured into the picture gallery How fearfully have I glanced at the faces of iny ancestors as I poured int the aladowy abyssos of the 'secret chamber. It was years before I would. venture inside without my hair literally bristling with terror." Glamis Castle, in Forfarsbito, the scat. of the Bowes-Lyon family, with its grim traditions of a pooja i containing proofs of a terrible secret revealed only generation by generation to the next beir, and cf another chan- | bor in which, so it is said, fugitiva Mae- donalds from the massacre of Glenove warw given a feast and then bricked up to die, zaade a deep impression on Sir Walter Scott. He once slept a night at the castle and speaks of the "wild and straggling arrangement of the accommodation within Goors."

**I was conducted,” he says, "to my apartment in a distant corner of the building. I must own, as I heard door after door shut after my conductor had retired, I began to consider myself too far from the living and somewhat too near the dewi --in a word, I experienced sensations which, though not remarkable either for 'timidity or superstition, did not fail to affect mo toi the point of being disagreeablo,"

The general reader, na Iase than the exploration of gloomy cells, secret passages, antiquarian, finds a keen interest in the and strange lairs once haunted by hurtai is thus led to probe the very groundwork princes, priest, cavaliers and rebels He

of historical romance and enabled to follow! in imagination the vicissitudea of men who sullared for their roligious faith or their political principles. So great is the fase na- tion of the subject that it is not surprising to see within & corepamtively short time i third and revised edition of Mr Allan Fax's "Secret Chambers and Hiding Places." With considerable industry Mr Pea has WATH 20

collected descriptions from old books and SELECTIONS from existing buildings. He has brought the pictures into touch with life by bristly telling the stories of those who used the lurking places, and bafurnishes a nurs. ber of illustrations which help to an under- standing of the weird dovicus of old time builders Among the secret chambers of English houses the nist persistent type is the so-called priest's hole." It dates ne a rule from the time of Queen Bess or of her saucessor James I. In those days it was a pacal offence to celebrate Mass." stand-priests of the "old religion" had to cli

ciuto in hidden places. They were, tao, outlaws, and not infrequently they wore on- gagud in desperate treason against the Pro- testant sovereign of the role. Most of the hiding places for paints were, it ppears, invented and constructed by the Jesult Nicholas Owen.

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Owen devoted most of his life to build-i ing safe retreats" in the principal Roman Cathohe Lousse all ever England. authority says of biWith incompar able skill he know how to conduct priesta to a place of safety along subterranean pas- THE Under-igued having purchased the them in impenetralie recesses, and to un- sages, to hide them between walls, and bury GOODWILL, FURNITURE and than thon in labyrinths with a thousand EFFEOIS of the Business of a Hotal and Boarding-house heretofore CARRIED ON

windings. But what was much inoro diffi- at No. 13, Queen's Road Central, under entranos to these is to make them most cult of accomplishment, he so disguised the the name di CONNAUGHT HOUSE, unlike what they really wore. Moreover, hereby givus notice that he will NOT Rkert theke places so close a sucret-with- RESPONSIBLE for any of the Debte of himself that he would never disclose t Liabilities in respect thereof prior to this disti

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suotber the plavɑ of armeeniment of any Catholic. He alone was both their architect and their builder, working as them with! 1371 inexhaustible industry and labour, for generally the thickest walls had to be Broken inte and large stones excavated, requiring stronger arma than were attacked to a holy se diminutive as to give him the nickname of Little Johor After tha discovery of the Gunpowder Plot Owen was captured, to the great joy of Robert Cocil. the Secretary of State,

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The man is dead--he died in our hands,' A curious manuscript in the British Museum rehtes bow Owon Garret, and in Worcestershire, a mansion on which two others were discovered at Bindi-hall,

Owen had oxorcised his skill, and which was standing until the early part of ast century. The document tells of the search, and shove how the house, which belonged to Thomas Abingdon, brodiori of Lord, Mentoagit, wis riddled witly socot places over the gate the semich

In the gallery party catao upon two amusing and sery artifical conveyances in the main brick Wall, ingeniously framed, and with such art, as it cost much labourere they could bo found." In id about the chimneys were two of the tribos werp close concealed. three. other hiding-holes, in one of which Thesschimney-chambers and their entrances were curiously-e vaad over sith brick, mortared, and made fast to planks of wood, the obimney. Eleven "Giorel corners and and coloured black, like the other parte of

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