f the uproar, and him they cut down
at once. From room to room they went, giving no quarter--knowing that
they themselves would receive none,--and one by one the unhappy
Spaniards were killed.

There was no organised resistance; it was every man for himself, for
they had been taken most completely by surprise.

Roger, with Harry and a few more, ran at once up aloft and came out upon
the battlements, where with mallet and spike they industriously
proceeded to render the guns useless.

Into the touch-hole of every gun a spike nail was driven as far as it
would go, thus effectually preventing the possibility of the weapon
being fired until the spike was drilled out, which would necessitate the
expenditure of at least an hour of hard work.

In a very short time every gun was effectually spiked, and, the capture
of the fort being by this time completely accomplished, the men formed
up again outside, and descended at the double to the town, which was now
thoroughly awakened and alarmed.

The cathedral was to be the next place of call, the object being to
remove the gold and silver plate with which it was known to be
furnished.

Meanwhile the tocsins were being sounded. The brazen voices of the
church bells pealed out high above all the other clamour. To add to the
confusion and terror, the English halted, and, fixing their arquebuses,
fired a volley into a square where some troops seemed to be mustering.

Immediately upon the crash of the volley came cries and screams from the
terrified populace, bearing eloquent witness to the execution wrought by
the flying bullets. Then, picking up their weapons, the English flew
like fiends through the town, cutting down all who had the temerity to
oppose them.

The cathedral was soon reached, and they entered it.

Lights were glimmering far up the aisles, just lit by the trembling
priests, who had come in by ones and twos to find out what all the
uproar was about. But the English pressed on, undeterred by their
presence, and, moving up the long chancel, reached the altar.

Two or three seamen made their way to the belfry, and, loosing the
bell-ropes, in the madness of their excitement began to ring the bells
in the steeple; and presently, clang, clang, clang, came from the tower
as they hauled on the ropes. Rushing from one bell-rope to another,
they started every bell in the steeple ringing, with an effect that was
appalling and terrible.

As the bells gained momentu