room in which our belief yet holds that the infant sons of Edward IV.
breathed their last; still, as Gloucester moved, he turned and turned,
and kept his eye furtively fixed upon the porter.

"Lovell," he said to one of the gentlemen who attended him, and who
was among the few admitted to his more peculiar intimacy, "that man is
of the North."

"Well, my lord?"

"The North was always well affected to the Lancastrians. Master
Warner hath been accused of witchcraft. Marry, I should like to see
his device--um; Master Catesby, come hither,--approach, sir. Go back,
and the instant Adam Warner and his contrivance are dismissed, bring
them both to me in the king's chamber. Thou understandest? We too
would see his device,--and let neither man nor mechanical, when once
they reappear, out of thine eye's reach. For divers and subtle are
the contrivances of treasonable men!"

Catesby bowed, and Richard, without speaking further, took his way to
the royal apartments, which lay beyond the White Tower, towards the
river, and are long since demolished.

Meanwhile the porter, with the aid of one of the attendants, had
carried the model into the chamber of the august captive. Henry,
attired in a loose robe, was pacing the room with a slow step, and his
head sunk on his bosom,--while Adam with much animation was enlarging
on the wonders of the contrivance he was about to show him. The
chamber was commodious, and furnished with sufficient attention to the
state and dignity of the prisoner; for Edward, though savage and