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The officers of one of the king's regiments, occupying the front chamber, saw him retire, but did not see him a minute later crawl out of a window to the roof of a shed, drop lightly to the ground, make his way to the church, enter, turn the key, lock the door, climb the stairs to the tower, and hang the lanterns in the loft above the bell. It was but the work of a moment.
At first he could not see at all, but presently he felt his way towards the steps and began to climb them. Audrey ran off towards the corner. She could see and hear him shaking the gate and then trying to get a key into it. But as Audrey had left her key in the other side of the lock, he failed in the attempt.
At that sound my heart seemed to stop for repairs; for there were two barges in front of us, the biggest in the lock, and we had not been able to pass them before the doors began to open. Now we could not escape until they had floated out into the canal, and, meanwhile, there might be a little private tragedy in high life on board "Mascotte."
"I will send him to you," exclaimed his sister, and she hastened from the room. "Well, uncle!" exclaimed Robert as he entered with a cheerfulness he was far from feeling as he witnessed that emaciated countenance; "better, I see." "I congratulate you upon your imagination," replied Raikes, with a feeble attempt at his customary incivility; "but lock the door and listen to me carefully."
Though not less really deplorable than they, it needs, I am well aware, some sort of explanation to enable my reader to mourn with me. For it is merely a hat-box. It is nothing but that an ordinary affair of pig-skin, with a brass lock. As I write, it stands on a table near me. It is of the kind that accommodates two hats, one above the other.
I loved that woman, sir I KISSED that woman, sir, twenty years ago: we were all but engaged, sir: we've walked for hours and hours, sir us and the governess I've got a lock of her hair, sir, among my papers now; and to-night, would you believe it? as soon as she got to the bottom of the set, away she went not one word would she speak to me all the way down: and when I wanted to lead her to her place, and asked her if she would have a glass of negus, 'Sir, says she, 'I have done my duty; I bear no malice: but I consider you a traitor to Sir George Gorgon's family a traitor and an upstart!
I said he seemed in a bit of a hurry to start stocktaking before the poor thing was buried; but anyhow, I went, and we took stock, and he counted his cash, and asked me to lock the place up if anything happened to him. Then we had a drink, and he bade me good-day, and said he was going to sit with Taloi awhile, before they took her away.
It may have been some story of the Middle Ages which had come back to my mind, or it may have been that my eye had caught some red which was not that of rust upon the upper part of the lock, but to him and to me it will always seem an inspiration, so prompt and sudden was my action. "There's devilry here," said I. "Give me the crooked stick from the corner."
We shall lock the door and when they have left the prison, we shall again come forth from our hiding place." "Zounds, you are right, there!" cried Gryphus; "it's surprising how much sense there is in such a little head!" Then, as the gate began to give way amidst the triumphant shouts of the mob, she opened a little trap-door, and said, "Come along, come along, father." "But our prisoners?"
Throw your ship into the wind, and lay by for a small matter, will ye? and Ill soon clear a passage. The sounds of hammering gave an assurance that the steward was in earnest, and in a short time the lock yielded, when the door was opened.
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