About ten o'clock
replied Tristram . `` Let us now descend to the cave and see that all is right in the magazine , and then we will return and hold ourselves in readiness for action . '' How the Train was fired , and what followed the Explosion . About ten o'clock in the night under consideration , Surrey and Richmond , accompanied by the Duke of Shoreditch , and half a dozen other archers , set out from the castle , and took their way along the great park , in the direction of the lake . They had not ridden far , when they were overtaken by two horsemen who , as far as they could be discerned in that doubtful light , appeared stalwart personages , and well mounted , though plainly attired . The new-comers very unceremoniously joined them . `` There are ill reports of the park , my masters , '' said the foremost of these persons to Surrey , `` and we would willingly ride with you across it . ''