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Tell him to wait outside. Five minutes, remember!" The girl went out and the door had barely closed behind her when Holmes muttered to Jimmy, "Here! Come here, quickly. Into this wash room with you, and lock the door on the inside. Keyhole it if you wish, because this sounds mighty funny to me."
The door upon the far side was cas'd with iron. Tramp tramp! 'Twas the sound of man's footfall, and to the ear appear'd to be descending a flight of steps on the other side of the door. I bent my ear to the keyhole: then stepp'd to a cask of bullets that stood handy by.
"Well, I don't mind telling you I have been," replied Bagley, with recovered insolence. "It isn't necessary to tell me, thank you. And as that door is a thick one, you must have had your ear to the keyhole." "Yes, sir, I had, and a good thing, too. Now, you see how completely I've got the dead wood on you.
There was the hot flash of a pistol from the keyhole, and a bullet smacked against the wall between us. We hurled ourselves against the door. It was massive, but rotten with age. With a splintering and rending it gave way before us. We rushed in, weapons in hand, to find ourselves in an empty room. 'Where the devil has he got to? cried Savary, glaring round him. 'This is the top room of all.
But the moment Arizona had passed through the door, he clapped his ear to the keyhole and listened, holding his breath, for he was certain that the moment his back was turned the shameful story of his exploits in the lumber camp eight years before would come out for the edification of Kern. If so, it meant ruin for him.
"Oh, you know that I didn't mean it," she said, reassuringly. The heavy tread stopped, and the children looked at each other. "What can he be doing now?" Jules asked, anxiously. Joyce tiptoed across the room, and peeped through the keyhole. "He is sitting down now, by the table, with his head on his arms. He looks as if he might be crying about something."
"At three o'clock, however, a startling thing occurred. Godwin, the cook, waking thirsty and finding her water-bottle empty, rose and went downstairs to fill it. She returned in a panic to rouse the housekeeper, Mrs. Condiment, and tell her that there was a light burning in the old duchess's room, its reflection being clearly visible under the door and through the keyhole.
'Turn Hellen's Key three tens and three? Some keyhole! I say, Miss Smith, let me keep this for a while, will you?" "I'll take the best care of it, Miss Smith; indeed I will!" The Author promised. "Look here: I'll lock it in the clothes-closet, in the breast pocket of my coat."
The robbers did not appear to have made up their mind the strength of the door defied their utmost efforts, so they attempted stratagem. They knocked, and as there was no reply, they continued to knock louder and louder: not meeting with success they held another consultation, and the muzzle of a carbine was then put to the keyhole, and the piece discharged.
You are rather too plump to whisk through a keyhole, and opening the door is a thing not to be spoke of." "It's no a thing to be spoken o', but a thing to be dune," replied the persevering damsel. "We'll see about that, my bonny Jenny;" and the soldier resumed his march, humming, as he walked to and fro along the gallery,
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