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She had heard almost every word of the interview, through the key-hole of a door leading into an adjoining room, and it had told her nothing, save that there was to be peace between the two men, and that there had been, perhaps, war. Mr. Percy and Miss Arthur were openly engaged now, and were anxiously waiting for the recovery of the sick at Oakley, in order to celebrate their marriage.
And, as Margaret had too much self-respect to listen at the key-hole, she remained in ignorance of what passed between the young duchess and the uncanny visitor. "Your strange words trouble me," said Salome, as soon as she found herself alone with her visitor. "Ay, my lady, your grace, I know it. And I am sorry for it. But I cannot help it.
She made all into one compact package, rolled up the dagger in the bundle, stole back to the baronet's dressing-room and listened, and peeped through the key-hole. He was not there; the room was empty. She went in, thrust the bundle out of sight in the remotest corner of the wardrobe, and hastened back to her chamber. Her letter still lay where she had left it. The baronet bad not yet returned.
"Smith," I said suddenly, "now that the mystery of the absence of a key-hole is explained, I am sorely tempted to essay the task of opening the coffer. I think it might help us to a solution of the whole mystery." "And I think otherwise!" interrupted my friend grimly.
It was a tough one. Never much good at answering his conundrums when I was well, I could not even make a guess now. "The key-hole, of course!" he explained. "I cut away the entire lock, and have submitted it to these tests which you see." "I don't see it all yet," I said. "Some one came to our door in the night, after gaining entrance to the hall not a difficult thing to do, we know.
Every time he tried to put in the key, the key-hole, which before was in easy reach, ran up so far that he could not get to it. He picked up some loose stones and piled them up against the door, and stood on them on his tiptoes, but still the key-hole shot up out of his reach. At last he got down exhausted, and sat down on the pile of stones he had made, with his back to the door.
I won't say it's the key-hole; but again I say, it's not the shoes. God bless you once more But never say it's the shoes." The above significant sketch is a correct copy of a drawing from the hand of Caudle at the end of this Lecture. It can hardly, we think, be imagined that Mrs.
Tom, if the school children get hold of it, she will never go another day. The child is so sensitive! I don't know how to punish her as I ought. I can only think how to save her from what is before her." O, how Roxy, standing at the key-hole, trembled to see her mother lean her head on her father's shoulder and sob, and to see tears on her father's cheeks! O, what a wicked, wicked girl!
At last, the whole of them, to the number of fifty, worked upon each other's imaginations to such a degree that they also confessed that they were witches that they attended the Domdaniel, or meeting of the fiends that they could ride through the air on broom-sticks, feast on infants' flesh, or creep through a key-hole. The citizens of Lille were astounded at these disclosures.
But, my Duchess, how the devil did you mange to get the old fool so infatuated so crazy with passion? for I stood over ten minutes looking at both of you through the key-hole, before I entered the room, and I never before saw a man act so extravagantly ludicrous; it was only with extreme difficulty that I could keep myself from laughing outright.
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