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Meanwhile the crowd looked for Phil's reappearance on the beam from which poor Ned Crashington had fallen, but Phil knew the house better than Ned. He gained the upper floor by a back stair, which was not quite impassable; seized Martha in his arms, just as she was about to leap into the street, and dragged her back into the smoke and flames.
Amazed at having learnt so much in such a short time, I took from my pocket the paper on which the dying nobleman had attempted to write with his half-paralysed hand. The chief constable had given the document to me, and I sat on the stair head, spread it out on the floor and scrutinised it. It was all but meaningless. Apparently two words and the initial letter of a third had been attempted.
We desired to see the chapel; and as we approached it by a back stair, the notes of the organ that swelled along the passage, gave indication that some service was going on. We entered a gallery, whence, from behind the shelter of a screen, we could look down upon the chapel, and those that filled it.
"Nothing you'd care to hear," he rejoined, evasively, I thought. "'Tis as you left it, save that Tarleton whipped away to the south again as suddenly as he came, and our cursing baronet has made the manor house his headquarters in fact, lodging himself and all his troop on Mr. Stair. From his lying quiet and keeping the Cherokees in tow, there will be some deviltry afoot, I'll warrant."
The succour which had been summoned by the girl who had passed down the stair before the assassins passed up was at hand, and the loud shouts which reached us from the outer gates told us that the town was also aroused, and the men awakened by the women were calling to be admitted.
"I suppose," he said later on, as Mr. Nugent, after a faint objection or two, took his candle "I suppose this yarn about my being married will get about?" "I suppose so," said Nugent, yawning, as he paused with his foot on the stair. "What about it?" "Nothing," said Mr. Wilks, in a somewhat dissatisfied voice. "Nothing." "What about it?" repeated Mr. Nugent, sternly. "Nothing, sir," said Mr.
As Caw placed his foot on the first step, something bright flashed down within a yard of his eyes and burst on the stair with a slight report. When Bullard looked over, a moment later, he nodded and said: "That's all right. He won't stir for fifteen minutes, anyway, and I hope I shan't need five." It then appeared necessary to conduct Mrs.
"I could not bear you to send him away like that." "All for his good," said Patsy easily. "He has been too long mollied over by his mother, besides getting all his own way from his grandfather. But ... before I finish I shall make a man of Master Louis!" "And Stair Garland?" ventured Miss Aline, taking one swift glance sidelong at Patsy's dark, decided face.
"They are just at work," replied the other, "and happy as they could wish; indeed, the heat is very pleasant." They went up a winding stair, and on a sudden Mary found herself in a most resplendent hall, so that, as she entered, her eyes were dazzled by the radiance.
'Yes, mem, weel eneuch, he answered. 'Come along, then. I will help you home. 'Na, na, he said, as if he had just recalled something. 'Dinna min' me. Rin hame, mem, or he'll see ye! 'Who will see me? Robert stared more wildly, put his hand to his head, and made no reply. She half led, half supported him down the stair, as far as the first landing, when he cried out in a tone of anguish,
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