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"And then," protested a third speaker, "that ain't the way to do if he DID do it bribing legislatures. Why, we were bucking against corrupt politics. We couldn't afford to be corrupt." Keast turned away with a gesture of impatience. He pushed his way farther on. At last, opening a small door in a hallway back of the stage, he came upon Magnus. The room was tiny. It was a dressing-room.
In the darkness Chunk found an opportunity to summon Jute aside and say, "Free er fo' ob you offer ter stay wid ole Perkins. Thet he'p me out." Perkins accepted the offer gladly, and they agreed to watch at his door and in the little hallway. "You mus' des tie up dat ar dawg ob yourn," first stipulated Jute. "Why, whar in is the dog? Hain't yeared a sound from 'im sence the 'sturbance begun."
She replied that she thought she was. "In that case," he said, "this is one of those rare occasions in a thankless world where goodness is amply and instantly rewarded." She made a perfunctory resistance, but looked after him, smiling, as he sauntered off down the hallway, rearranging the blue corn-flower in his button-hole.
"Supper'll be ready in a few minutes," Hawley informed him, glancing up at the round, dust-covered clock screwed to the wall. "I don't want supper I want pie," Kent retorted, and opened a door which led into the hallway.
He felt anew the spring of old dreams, and the surge of new ones. He stumbled, unsteady in his steps, his hands trembling on the railing of the stairs, until he reached the street level. He hurried out through the hallway and closed the door behind him. How he longed to retrace his steps for just one more word!
It was one of those curious nights when John Barleycorn chose to be kind when mind and body stayed alert and keen. Carl lazily poured some whiskey in the fire and watched the flame burn blue. He could not rid his mind of the doctor's farm and the girl in Vermont. Again the wind shook the farmhouse and danced and howled to its crazy castanetting. There was a creak in the hallway beyond.
He was noiselessly progressing along the hallway of the third floor; he was about midway of it when under his tread a loose plank gave off an agonized squeak, and, as involuntarily he crouched, right at his side a door was flung open. What the discomfited refugee saw, at a distance from him to be measured by inches rather than by feet, was the face of a woman; and not the face of young Mrs.
As silently as a cat after a mouse, Dick entered the gloomy building and felt his way over the half-rotted floor to where the stairs were located. Ascending these, he found himself in something of a hallway, the upper floor of the building being divided into several apartments by wooden partitions nine or ten feet in height. From one of the apartments shone a faint light.
The house door closed with a dull bang, and from the entrance hallway came a sound of voices. She stood petrified in dread till the voices fell and she heard stairs creak under an ascending tread. Thus reminded that Lanyard's return might occur at any moment, she made all haste to patch up the disarray of veil and coiffure.
The man had not waited for an answer to his question. With a deft touch he had turned Billy toward the door; and even as she finished her sentence she found herself in the marble hallway confronting Pete, pallid-faced, and shaking. "And you, too, Pete! Great Scott! what does this mean?" he exploded angrily. Pete could only shake his head and glance imploringly at Billy.
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