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Going to the cupboard, she hastily heaped a plate with food, and, taking a dipper of water from a pail near by, she entered her bedroom hastily and placed what she had brought on a small table, as her visitor rose slowly from the bed. He was about to speak, but she made a protesting gesture. "I can't tell you anything yet," she said. "Who was it come?" he asked. "My uncle I'm going to tell him."
"Addie has been through with a good deal of experience since then," explained Nancy, with a twinkle in her eyes. "I wish I could have danced again with you," said Tom bravely, "but I saw some scholars that did you credit." "I have to dance by proxy," said Nancy; and to this there was no reply. Tom Aldis sat in the tiny bedroom with an aching heart.
"I believe I have all the information I require," returned Brant, with undisturbed composure. Giving the necessary orders to his subaltern, he acknowledged with equal calm the formal salutes of the two prisoners as they were led away, and returned quickly to his bedroom above. He paused instinctively for a moment before the closed door, and listened. There was no sound from within.
The young man was in the bedroom, lying on the bed, dressed, and in a sort of stupor. As Kate bent over him, and spoke, he opened his eyes, dull and heavy. "Harry, dear," Kate said, kissing him, "what is the matter? Are you ill?" Harry Danton made an effort to raise, but fell back on the pillow. "My head aches as if it would split open, and I feel as if I had a ton-weight bearing down every limb.
He had apparently been smothered. With the hand, not a rope. There was a ladder set up against the window of the spare bedroom. That it had not been there before was evidence that the thieves had set it up. The window was open, and they had gone in. Several watches, some good clothes, sundry articles of jewellery, all worth some six or seven hundred dollars, were missing and could not be found.
He was at a loss to prevent the men entering the house, but once within the house he determined that they should not enter the bedroom. He backed toward it and stood with one shoulder against the lintel. "Come right in. I ain't got to housekeepin' yet, but . . ." He ceased speaking as he saw Corliss's gaze fixed on the kyacks. "Where did you get 'em?" queried the rancher.
It crouched now, stung and beaten, hiding in her body that walked beside her mother with proud feet, and small lifted head. Her mother turned at her bedroom door and signed to her to come in. She sat down in her low chair at the head of the curtained bed. Mary sat in the window-seat. "There's something I want to say to you." "Yes, Mamma." Mamma was annoyed.
Groome's bedroom for six weeks, relieved for several hours of the afternoon by a member of the family or one of Mrs. Groome's many anxious friends. It was her first case and it interested her profoundly. Moreover, her personal devotion placed her for the moment on a certain basis of equality with a family whose mental processes were quite transparent to her contemptuous mind.
Besides the three little windows, with seats in them, commanding the opposite archway, there was another window looking point blank, without any compromise at all about it into Jinkins's bedroom; and high up, all along one side of the wall was a strip of panes of glass, two-deep, giving light to the staircase. Here the gentlemen were all assembled.
Her father was away from home, as usual, but the days of his return were always uncertain, and Mrs. Enderby might perchance open the door of the little sitting-room just to see whether he was there, as it was here he ordinarily employed himself when in the house. From her bedroom Maud could hear several people ascend the stairs.
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