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He missed the window a trifle, but that did not matter his flaming Lewiston opened a way for him, partly through the window, partly through the wall. As he soared through the opening he trained projector and pistol upon Roger, now almost to the door, noticing as he did so that Clio was clinging convulsively to a lamp-bracket upon the wall.
He stood without, drumming with his fist on the doorpost. Then he turned to listen. Some one was approaching from the darkness of the trees. But it was only the driver following sullenly on foot. "Here!" said the priest, recognizing him. "Go to your horses!" As he spoke he was already untying one of the stable-lanterns that swung at the lamp-bracket.
The occupant of the vehicle had wound the reins round the empty lamp-bracket, and left it to the sagacity of his horse to keep the familiar track, while he dozed, head on breast, in the corner. The animal halted of itself on coming up with its fellow, and Archdeacon Long opened his eyes. "Ah, good-day to you, doctor! Yes, as you see, enjoying a little nap. I was out early."
I, too, hear something, an elfin hiss, a fairy fusillade, and then the sudden laugh with which Raffles rejoined us in the body of the room. "It's raining!" he cried, waving a hand above his head. "Have you a barometer, Mr. Garland?" "That's an aneroid under the lamp-bracket." "How often do you set the indicator?" "Last thing every night.
It still had in front of it an extinguisher for links, and a lamp-bracket over the door of wasted iron scroll-work. It was a dingy place, but Mr Martelet had a famous county connection, and rumour said that more important family business was done here even than in Carisbury itself. Lord Blandamer sat behind the dusty windows.
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