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I am prepared to give an ordonnance de non-lieu in your favour which will have the effect of at once setting you free if you will restore to this gentleman here the Mont de Piété receipt which you appear to have stolen." "Sir," I said with consummate dignity in the face of this reiterated taunt, "I have stolen nothing " M. le Juge's hand was already on the bell-pull.
A window was thrown open in a house across the street, and a voice inquired the cause of this untimely uproar. "I wish the Maire," said Leon. "He has been in bed this hour," returned the voice. "He must get up again," retorted Leon, and he was for tackling the bell-pull once more. "You will never make him hear," responded the voice.
Still you will be in the open air, and you will have something to take you out of doors." "No proposal could give me more pleasure. I did not venture to make it myself, lest I should thrust myself upon you." "That is right," said Benassis, "Jacquotte has lighted a fire for you. If you want anything, there is a bell-pull close to the head of the bed."
An iron bell-pull hung by the side, and below it, on a small brass plate, neatly engraved in square capital letters, they could read by the aid of moonlight The Mole fell backwards on the snow from sheer surprise and delight. "Rat!" he cried in penitence, "you're a wonder! A real wonder, that's what you are. I see it all now!
Let's get at him. Where is he? The old boy tugged furiously at the bell-pull. 'Send Brenner round to the stable, he said to the servant. 'Tell him to get the horses to, and bring the carriage round at once. Where's your father, Phil? 'He's down Poplar way, said Phil. 'Hornett, his old clerk, is living in the same house with him.
'But as you haven't, interrupted the Rat, rather unkindly, 'I suppose you're going to sit on the snow all night and TALK Get up at once and hang on to that bell-pull you see there, and ring hard, as hard as you can, while I hammer!
The man was shown into a parlour, where he was about to sit down, when a growl saluted his ears. Turning round, he saw Dash lying in a chair near the fire-place, who reared his head, and the ring of the bell-pull hanging close by, he put his paw in it.
As Buckram made this retrograde movement, he gave a gentle pull to the wooden handle of an old-fashioned wire bell-pull in the midst of buggy, four-in-hand, and other whips, hanging in the entrance, a touch that was acknowledged by a single tinkle of the bell in the stable-yard.
Still declaiming, in a fine flow of eloquence, the demented gentleman hopped on, blind and deaf to my graspings and entreaties; and I was about to slam the door in his face, and run for help, when a second and saner phantom, "all in white," came to the rescue, in the likeness of a big Prussian, who spoke no English, but divined the crisis, and put an end to it, by bundling the lively monoped into his bed, like a baby, with an authoritative command to "stay put," which received added weight from being delivered in an odd conglomeration of French and German, accompanied by warning wags of a head decorated with a yellow cotton night cap, rendered most imposing by a tassel like a bell-pull.
One sign alone held out any promise that all within were not deep in slumber: the outer front doors were not closed. Upon the frosted glass panels of the inner doors a dim light cast a sickly yellow stain. Laying hold of an obsolete bell-pull, P. Sybarite yanked it with a spirit in tune with his temper.
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