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He spread the map out carefully, likewise his calculations; they gave him, on this floor, the precise positions that he charted on the earth of the cellar. A glance toward the front of the house north then a little measuring, three chalk-marks on the carpet, and he was ready for the final move. He took the fateful ring and with a penknife pried up the prongs that held the stone.
Charlie turned, somewhat startled, and there was Simes Badger himself. "She has gone out, I guess, sir." "What are you looking at that door for? I don't believe your Aunt Stanshy wants you to open it." "O, I was not going to open it." If, after the half-effaced chalk-marks, Charlie had seen a written threat, "On pain of death," he could not have been more determined to let that window alone.
At the first sound the girl ran off like a deer and vanished in the darkness. The man picked himself up and began to rave against the inn with such volubility that it was a wonder to hear him. "What!" he yelled, "I drunk? I not pay the chalk-marks on your smoky door? Rub them out! rub them out!
Dead cats appeared mysteriously in his neighborhood; weird noises arose under his windows; he tried to pick up letters from his doorstep that became mere chalk-marks at his touch, so that he took up only splinters under his nails.
"Listen well, and maybe you will gain some learning which may serve you all your life in reading chalk-marks in taprooms; for I see that they have that custom in this country, and 'tis very bad for hard-drinking men who have no learning." "If you would read from the paper " began Jem Bottles. "Now, will you be still?" cried Paddy in vast exasperation.
Beside him at times, but rushing from one point to another just outside the chalk-marks that indicated the "dead line," was the director of this production, who shouted commands in a nervous, excited manner and raged and tore his hair when anything went wrong. Something went very wrong presently, for the director blew a shrill blast on his whistle and suddenly everything stopped short.
In front of the Palais de Justice he paused, exhausted and breathless, and Lecoq had little hope of seeing him again, since he had all he could do to keep his man in sight without stopping to make the chalk-marks agreed upon. May had instructed his driver to take him to the Place d'Italie: requesting him, moreover, to stop exactly in the middle of the square.
Then he hitched a horse to a buggy and drove to town drove to the same distillery where he had bought those barrels in the latter 'fifties. The distiller of that time had passed away and his son reigned in his stead the youth who had decorated the barrels with the red chalk-marks. To him, now a keen, middle-aged business man, Appleman told his story.
To me the force of the whole scene was concentrated in the two following points: on the one hand the Marker, with his slate covered with chalk-marks, and on the other Hans Sachs holding up the shoes covered with his chalk-marks, each intimating to the other that the singing had been a failure.
He drew a chalk line five feet up a wall, and dividing the upper part of the line by horizontal chalk-marks, stood the boys beside it, one after another, and according to the chalk-mark which the crown of the unfortunate creature's head grazed, Master Snip called out 'Fours, 'Ones, 'Fives. Fat boys or lean boys, big-bodied or big-legged, narrow-chested or broad-shouldered, 't was all ones or twos to him.
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