James VI and the Gowrie mystery . inentrance, a door opened on a narrow spiral staircase,so dark that it was called the Black Turnpike. As to the interior, entering the main doorway youfound yourself in the hall. A door led thence intoa smaller dining-room on the left. The hall itself 03 had a door and external stair giving on the gardenbehind. The chief staircase, which vou entered from mf the hall, led to the Great Gallery, built and decoratedby the late Earl. This extended above the dining-room and the hall, and, to the right, was separatedby a partition and a door from the large upstairsro
James VI and the Gowrie mystery . inentrance, a door opened on a narrow spiral staircase,so dark that it was called the Black Turnpike. As to the interior, entering the main doorway youfound yourself in the hall. A door led thence intoa smaller dining-room on the left. The hall itself 03 had a door and external stair giving on the gardenbehind. The chief staircase, which vou entered from mf the hall, led to the Great Gallery, built and decoratedby the late Earl. This extended above the dining-room and the hall, and, to the right, was separatedby a partition and a door from the large upstairsroom on the same flat called The Gallery the extremity of this chamber, on the left hand asvou advanced, was a door leading into a round, or «/ o turret, or little circular-shaped study, of which onewindow seems to have looked to the gateway, theother to the street. People below in the streetcould see a man looking out of the turret door in the gallery chamber gave on the narrow THE SLAUGHTER OF THE RUTHVENS 17.
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