Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 72: what you’re looking at

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

66 Roanoke of Roanoke Halt. looking into the interior, there was an oriel opening on the outer world. The room was filled with lumber, barrels, and cases, while against the wall were ranged numbers of pikes, muskets, and other weapons. To these, however, at that time, I paid scant attention, for in the further angle of the room I dis- covered the staircase of which I was in search. It ended on the floor below in a small arched guard room, from which two doors and a passage opened. ‘The first of these gave admittance to an empty hall’ exactly similar in all respects to the armory above. The other door was locked, so I betook my- self to the passage. This, after conducting me in the usual darkness to the south-east corner of the house, led me between a row of windows giving inwards and a series of small, dark chambers, to the south-west angle, and then along the west end to the head of another staircase, descending which I came out at last on the ground-floor in a corner of the stables. To conclude at once the description of this singular mansion, which I fear me may be comicbooks.com