"
During this discourse, they passed on through the vaulted passage,
till, arriving at a wooden crucifix which marked the boundary of the
domain of Durham, Gloucester stopped.
"I must not go further. Should I prolong my stay from the castle
during the search for you, suspicion may be awakened. You must
therefore proceed alone. Go straight forward, and at the extremity of
the vault you will find a flag stone, surmounted like the one by which
we descended; raise it, and it will let you into the cemetery of the
Abbey of Fincklay. One end of that burying-place is always open to the
east. Thence you will emerge to the open world; and may it in future,
noble Wallace, ever treat you according to your unequaled merits.
Farewell!"
The earl turned to retrace his steps, and Wallace pursued his way
through the rayless darkness toward the Fincklay extremity of the
vault.
Chapter LX.
Gallic Seas.
Wallace having issued from his subterranean journey, made direct to
Sunderland, where he arrived about sunrise. A vessel belonging to
France (which, since the marriage of Margaret with Edward, had been in
amity with England as well as Scotland) rode there, waiting a favorable
wind.
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