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"The other gentlemen are all down, sir, and you will be too late." "Not a bit. They must wait for me," yawned Bertie. Crash came the Seraph's thunder on the panels of the door, and a strong volume of Turkish through the keyhole: "Beauty, Beauty, are you dead?" "Now, what an inconsequent question!" expostulated Cecil, with appealing rebuke. "If a fellow were dead, how the devil could he say he was?

He had refused to recognize the scratch at the door, the snuffling whine through the keyhole. The outer door had slammed. Kerry raced to the window. And the master was going, and going without him! He had neither net, knapsack, nor bottle-belt, but he carried a suitcase. He did not look back, nor whistle: he meant to leave him behind.

He crept, hand outstretched, toward the door behind which he heard men talking. As he moved forward his stomach muscles tightened. At any moment some one might come out of the room and walk into him. He put his eye to the keyhole, and through it saw a narrow segment of the room. Ad Miller was sitting a-straddle a chair, his elbows on the back.

'Some genius takes this for a joke, I suppose, he murmured philosophically, and proceeded by the aid of a pocket corkscrew to clear the keyhole. He had just succeeded when a hand was laid familiarly upon his shoulder. He turned and saw a stranger clean-shaven, calm, and in aspect business-like. 'Mr. Barndale, I think? said the familiar stranger.

On the day before Christmas the sitting-room door was closed and locked, so that none of the children might enter the room. Freddie was very anxious to look through the keyhole, but Bert told him that wouldn't be fair, so he stayed away. "We are to hang up our stockings to-night," said Nan. "And mamma says we must go to bed early, too."

He had returned to the Shack before ten, and the clever Shan Tung was letting him know in this cryptic fashion that for more than three-quarters of an hour he had listened at the door and spied upon him and Mary Josephine through the keyhole. Had even such an insignificant person as Wallie been guilty of that act, Keith would have felt like thrashing him.

What Jobler, at the keyhole, understood him to say he had seen, or thought he had seen, is not to be believed. Judge of it. "I rode into the dem place and what did I behold? A dem pandemonium, Sir, a pantomime a lunatic asylum, Sir all Hell out for a Bank Holiday, I tell you.

Several of the most venturesome members of the school had tried to follow the figure, but when they came round the corner, to their immense surprise it had utterly disappeared. And there was absolutely no place in which it could possibly have concealed itself. "Has it crept through the keyhole?" quavered Peggy. "Or just vanished into thin air?" speculated Magsie.

More than likely Merrick and Doranez were in league with each other and would do all in their power to keep the treasure out of the hands of the rightful owners. "If only Tom and Sam were here," thought Dick. "Or if only Tom has captured Tad Sobber. This is getting lively, to say the least." The men were now speaking in a lower tone and he put his ear to the keyhole, to catch what they might say.

"It is you who linger, when all should be ordered for a deed so daring. Go then. But hark ye, Ned; ere you go, tell me when I shall again see yonder thing of fire and air yon Eastern Peri, that glides into apartments by the keyhole, and leaves them through the casement yon black-eyed houri of the Mahometan paradise when, I say, shall I see her once more?"