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(arches) of the Chapel. These latter he recovered entirely and set 

 them up against the back of the dining-room wall. Two of the 

 arches were perfect as I draw them, the third was not so complete. 

 Of course the stones were found lying about, but my father, with 

 the assistance of Mr. Fox (Rector of Morley, and a great archae- 

 ologist), put them all correctly in their places, and very beautiful 

 they looked. He was satisfied for the time being with this impor- 

 tant discovery and went no deeper in his search for the passage. 

 The story belonging to this is as follows : — ' There was an old 

 butler in the service of Dr. Erasmus Darwin ; when my father 

 (Sir Francis) was a boy, he was told by this man that his father 

 knew of this secret passage, and had been in it ; also that he 

 himself in his boyhood, had seen the sione with a ring in it, 

 in the cellar, which gave access to it. The floor of the cellar 

 has doubtless been somewhat raised since then. My father took 

 up some of the flags and found faint traces of a second floor but 

 no stone with ring.' " 



