noon
Wilt drink with me ? '' The tankards clinked , the wine went down , and the flattered Mexia turned his round , empurpled countenance to Nevil . `` Why , see you , '' he said , '' 't was easy for Desmond to find the secret door in the upper room in the Friar 's house , and , stealing down by the stair between the walls to listen at the hidden grating until he had by heart your every plan -- but 't was not so easy to escape to us ! It lacked half an hour of sunset when be brought that news which since noon Don Luiz had sought with fury to wring from the other . '' `` From the other ? '' `` From Sir Mortimer Ferne . '' An Englishman cried out , `` Then were there two traitors ? ''