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It indeed proved necessary to climb a few more steps; and then, following Madame Theodore and Celine, Pierre found himself in a kind of narrow garret under the roof, a loft a few yards square, where one could not stand erect. There was no window, only a skylight, and as the snow still covered it one had to leave the door wide open in order that one might see.
"Get back there!" cried a burly policeman. Joe resisted his shouldering. "I'm Mr. Blaine;... it's my loft burning. I'm looking for my men...." "Go to the morgue then," snapped the policeman. "A fire line's a fire line." Joe was pushed back, and as the crowd closed about him, a soft pressure of clothing, men and women, he became aware of the fact that he had lost his head.
Frank Shabata had never found it; would never find it if he lived beside it a thousand years; would have destroyed it if he had found it, as Herod slew the innocents, as Rome slew the martyrs. wailed Raoul from the organ loft; And it did not occur to Emil that any one had ever reasoned thus before, that music had ever before given a man this equivocal revelation.
"You're caught now," whispered Ned to Tom. "Come on down, and give 'em a trouncing." Tom hesitated. He looked quickly about the loft, and then a smile replaced the frown of righteous anger on his face. "I have a better way," he said. "What is it?" "See that pile of dirt?" and he pointed to some refuse that had been swept up from the floor of the loft. Ned nodded.
Here is a brief sketch of John Doe, furnished by a gentleman who befriended him and has followed his career for years: "John is thirty-one years of age and has just been released from a term in Sing Sing Prison. The crime for which he served sentence was burglary. He made a skeleton key with which he gained access to a loft where were stored valuable goods.
"Yu'll have to square it with Skinny, he shore wanted Shorty plum' bad," Hopalong informed the unerring marksman. "Why didn't he say suthin' about it? Anyhow, Jimmy was my bunkie." Hopalong's cigarette disintegrated and the board at his left received a hole. He promptly disappeared and Buck laughed. He sat up in the loft and angrily spat the soaked paper out from between his lips.
Cross-eyed was Maggie, but her heart beat warm for the lad in the loft, and many's the plates of beef and bowls of hot soup she handed to me poor girl! I'd like to know where she is; had I the power of locomotion I'd look her up, too." Again Bertha was brought face to face with the great sacrifice she was obscurely contemplating.
The roar and whir of the machines increase as the door opens, and one sees in a long loft, which is usually fairly light and clean, though sometimes neither, rows and rows of girls with heads bent and eyes intent upon the flashing needles.
The wounded on their beds lay with wide-open, terrified eyes, moving feverishly from side to side. At dawn the order came that the hospital was to be evacuated. The ambulances were already waiting in the street. Joan flew up the ladder to her loft, the other side of the yard. Madame Lelanne was already there.
Mike told his wife that Bryden was born in Duncannon, and when he mentioned Bryden's name she gave him her hand, after wiping it in her apron, saying he was heartily welcome, only she was afraid he would not care to sleep in a loft. "Why wouldn't I sleep in a loft, a dry loft! You're thinking a good deal of America over here," said he, "but I reckon it isn't all you think it.
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