n to proceed. He, therefore, with one
faithful companion--Andrew A'Dale--agreed to set forth to gain
information.

Poor Lady Anne was by this time in great agitation about her young
charges, they having strayed out unknown to her, and she being unable to
tell what had become of them.

Ernst and Andrew, hiding their weapons, hurried along, passing through
Cheapside, and going on till they arrived at Ludgate. Joining an armed
band who were going forth, they slipped out through the gate. And now
they took their way along Fleet Street to Temple Bar. They had not gone
far before they saw a large body of armed men approaching. They guessed
rightly. They formed part of the army of Sir Thomas Wyatt.

"We will join them," said Ernst; but A'Dale was cautious. "Let us draw
aside," he observed, "and see what they are about."

On marched the insurgents. Some had fire-arms, but many had only long
pikes and scythes, and other hastily-formed weapons. Still as they
advanced, the people shouted, "A Wyatt! a Wyatt!"

The boys now joined the band, which with loud shouts marched onward till
they arrived at Ludgate. The gate was, however, shut. Wyatt having
thus far been successful, hoped that he should have no difficulty in
entering the City; but when he knocked at the gate, Lord William Howard,
who was there commanding, shouted out:

"Avaunt, traitor! Thou shalt not enter in here."

In vain the insurgents thundered at the gate. They could by no means
force it. Some were slain in making the attempt. Two or three were
struck down by arrows close to where Ernst and his companion were
standing.

"We shall do well to retreat," observed A'Dale, in a low voice; "we
shall gain no honour here. I fear that these men will not force the
gate."

He spoke too truly. The order was given to retreat. The boys were now
hurried back by the crowd, from which it was impossible to extricate
themselves.

CHAPTER SIX.

IN FLEET PRISON.

Ernst Verner and Andrew A'Dale began bitterly to repent their folly in
having come out of the City. Still more so did they when the insurgents
met a body of the Queen's troops near Temple Bar. Sir Thomas Wyatt's
men, though they for some time fought bravely, many losing their lives,
were at length put to flight, and a herald advancing, urged their leader
to yield himself a prisoner, and to submit to the Queen's clemency. The
friends around him, however, entreated him rather to fly than to t