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arrived himself, and there was a sudden cessation of the noise.
"Dick," cried the knight, "be not an ass. The Seven Sleepers had been
awake ere now. We know she is within there. Open, then, the door, man."
Dick was again silent.
"Down with it," said Sir Daniel. And immediately his followers fell
savagely upon the door with foot and fist. Solid as it was, and strongly
bolted, it would soon have given way; but once more fortune interfered.
Over the thunderstorm of blows the cry of a sentinel was heard; it was
followed by another; shouts ran along the battlements, shouts answered
out of the wood. In the first moment of alarm it sounded as if the
foresters were carrying the Moat House by assault. And Sir Daniel and
his men, desisting instantly from their attack upon Dick's chamber,
hurried to defend the walls.
"Now," cried Dick, "we are saved."
He seized the great old bedstead with both hands, and bent himself in
vain to move it.
"
Help me, Jack. For your life's sake, help me stoutly!" he cried.
Between them, with a huge effort, they dragged the big frame of oak
across the room, and thrust it endwise to the chamber door.
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