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Ere he reached it, its long-tongued clock tolled twelve, and all the other churches, one after another, took up the sound, and the witching hour of midnight rang and rerang from end to end of London town. As if by magic, a thousand forked tongues of fire shot up at once into the blind, black night, turning almost in an instant the darkened face of the heavens to an inflamed, glowing red.
Assuredly Bob Slack must be the soundest sleeper in the known world. He who waited rang and rang and rerang. There was no response. Eventually conviction was forced upon Mr. Leary that he must awaken the caretaker who, he seemed dimly to recall as a remembrance of past visits to Bob Slack, was a woman; and this done he must induce the caretaker to admit him to the inside of the house.
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