A Gentleman from Gascony: A Romance of the Huguenots — page 107: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

CHAPTER XI. THE KING’S PHYSICIAN. MysTERIOUsS as Seemed Raoul’s sudden disappearance, the explanation was very simple. Pressed closely as he was against the wall, his body had touched the secret spring of a sliding panel, which had glided back into place after the involuntary transit of the chevalier. The Gascon’s predicament was anything but pleasant. As soon as he had recovered from the shock, he set him- self to work to discover into what sort of a place he had been precipitated. He was in inklike darkness, but by groping along the walls, which were built of stone, he judged that he was in an apartment some fifteen feet Square. Save the way by which he had entered, outlet there was apparently none whatever, and try as he would he could not discover the spring of the panel. The place in all likelihood had been arranged by some former owner of the house as a hiding-place in time of danger, and it is quite improbable, in view of recent events, that either the admiral or any of his attendants was aware of its existence. Worn out and discouraged, Raoul finally threw him- self down on the hard floor and soon fell into the dreamless sleep of exhaustion. It was long after daybreak when he awoke. As soon as he recovered his senses and realized where Eomichboo SS