that a good builder places his towers so that each one protects one or two
others, and in the end every one is protected.

"In the storey above will be the great hall. These walls don't need to be
so thick--not more than eighteen feet. Here on this side we'll cut a
little room out of the thickness of the wall, for the private chamber of
my lord and lady--"

"The tapestry chamber!" cried Eleanor.

"Yes," Roger went on, "and here on the other side we have the well-
chamber. There's a stone bason with a shaft that goes away down to the
well in the lowest part of the castle, and the defenders can always get
water by lowering a bucket when they're besieged. Up above is another
storey for a guard-room, and a flat roof with battlements around it, where
the sentinels can see for miles and miles across the country."

The two children gazed at their castle mount and almost believed the
walls, eighteen, twenty, thirty feet thick--rising before their eyes.

"But that isn't all of the castle," said Eleanor at last.

"No; we'll build more towers after awhile, and have a banquet hall to
entertain the King. And the soldiers and people will live in tents and
wattled huts until the stonework is done. But the keep is the first thing
to build, because, you see, you have to defend yourself from enemies no
matter when they come."

Lady Philippa's garden was cleared of stones in a much shorter time than
she had expected. But to build a stone wall simply by laying one stone