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And thus supported on each side, it was admirably preserved, with its stone basement, its second story in wooden panels, ornamented with bricks, its roof, of which the framework advanced at least three feet beyond the gable, its turret for the projecting stairway at the left corner, where could still be seen in the little window the leaden setting of long ago.
Feminine intuition, I suppose." I hadn't meant to be offensive with that last, but her firm little chin was in the air as she countered, "Is it a stairway? It might be a ladder, you know." It was a ladder, an iron ladder, as I found when I ushered them in. My eyes snapped inquiry at her. "Very simple," she said.
Perhaps he would have actually gotten away from her only that that was the moment that Dulcie Dierckt opened the long French doors at the head of the little outside stairway and motioned down the steps to the excited man who was following her. "There's Mr. Graemer," she said; "here's some one to see you," she called wickedly, as she leaned across the balcony.
He was sound asleep before he reached it, but in his dreams, light as a little bird, she came flying down the broad stairway to meet him, and But when he waked next morning, he did not find himself in Virginia, but in Devonshire, where, to his unbounded embarrassment, a white housemaid was putting up his curtains and whispering something about his bath.
But Marietta never forgot, never for one single instant, the wasted figure in the easy chair at the window above the shop, the pale sunken face with the shining eyes, turned always toward the stairway the instant her foot touched the lower step.
"I'm afraid," smiled Magee, "I'm too busy to think." He again crossed the office floor to the stairway. Before the fire sat the girl of the station, her big eyes upon him, pleadingly. With a reassuring smile in her direction, he darted up the stairs. "And now," he thought, as he closed and locked the door of number seven behind him, "for the swag.
Who is he, Charley?" Now he was worn thin, and was a little stooped; and because of the wound in his knee, from a copper bullet, he limped. His full beard, trimmed around, was brown, but his eyes were a bright keen blue. Charley thought him the handsomest man in the world and about the biggest. "Somebody they've taken out of a stairway," explained Mrs. Adams, to him. "He was freezing.
At last, however, I found one door at the top of the stairway which, though it seemed locked, gave a little under pressure. I tried it harder, and found that it was not really locked, but that the resistance came from the fact that the hinges had fallen somewhat, and the heavy door rested on the floor.
And here I go, not doing myself a bit of good by it, and just" Fanny wrung her hands again "just ruining them!" "I suppose you mean I'm doing that," George said bitterly. "Yes, I do!" she sobbed, and drooped upon the stairway railing, exhausted. "On the contrary, I mean to save my mother from a calamity."
The automobile, traveling out along the Laguna-Bell road, reached a cross-roads shaded by tall and spreading trees. Back from the road John saw an old house that charmed him. It was of whitewashed adobe, two stories in height. Entirely around the second story was a balcony of wood, ascended by an open stairway.
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