. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. If [ K-^. °F CHARLES I LONDON. 179 The guide left the party a few minutes, and then returned with abunch of keys. He led the way to a small room in which the little sons of Edwardhad been lodged, to be accessible to the murderers. Here the unhappychildren were smothered in bed. The room, apart from its dreadfulassociations, was a pleasant one looking out on the Thames. The party was next shown the stairs at the foot of which theremains of the princes were discovered. I can imagine, said Ernest Wynn, the life of the boys in theTo
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. If [ K-^. °F CHARLES I LONDON. 179 The guide left the party a few minutes, and then returned with abunch of keys. He led the way to a small room in which the little sons of Edwardhad been lodged, to be accessible to the murderers. Here the unhappychildren were smothered in bed. The room, apart from its dreadfulassociations, was a pleasant one looking out on the Thames. The party was next shown the stairs at the foot of which theremains of the princes were discovered. I can imagine, said Ernest Wynn, the life of the boys in theTower. How they went from window to window and looked out onthe Thames, the sunlight, and the sky as we do now; how they sawthe bright, happy faces pass, and children in the distance at play; howthey watched, it may be, the lights in their dead fathers palace atnight, and how they wondered why the freedom of the gay worldbeyond the prison was denied them. It is said that an old man wholoved them used to play on some instrument in the evening under thewalls of the Tower, a
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