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Carrie had disappeared, and Miss Pomeroy's steps were descending the stairway; so she closed her door quietly, observing that two or three curious faces were peering at her from across the hall; and with a feeling half homesick, half exultant, Tabitha hung up her hat and turned for a more studied survey of her surroundings.
Pretty soon there came a deprecatory cough from the stairway the local method of announcing a visitor. Outside of Manila knocking or ringing does not seem to appeal to the Filipinos. In the provinces the educated classes come to the foot of the stairway and call "Permiso!" and the lower-class people come to the head of the stairway and cough to attact attention. My chicken man had returned.
At the top of the worn stone stairway, cut in the pylon, I met Biddy. She was dim as one of Cleopatra's Ptolemaic ghosts, in the darkness of the passage; but to me that darkness was brighter than the best thing in sunsets. "Salutation to Caesar from one about to die!" I ejaculated. "What do you mean?" she asked.
If her aunt could see her in all this splendor, she would probably be sadder than ever. What right had she to sit there and mourn as she knew her aunt did and sigh over her career? What right had they to sit in judgment on her? She went out from her room, down the great stairway, into the spacious house, pausing in the great hall to see opening vista after vista in the magnificent apartments.
Above this floor the stairs are blocks of hardwood, the full width of the stairway and the height of the step, and this earthquake precaution does not detract from the dignity of the building, for the woodwork is massive and handsome.
In spite of Beatrice's confidence in Asgeelo she felt her heart sink with dread as she passed through the hall and down the great stairway. But no sound disturbed them. The lights were all out and the house was still. The door of the dining-room was open, but no light shone through. Asgeelo led the way to the north door. They went on quietly without any interruption, and at last reached it.
Her courage was in truth greater than Madame Riano's, for madame loved battle; Francezka did not love it, neither did she fear it. She accepted Count Saxe's hand, and he led her across the courtyard and up the stairway, where she disappeared within the door, first making a curtsy to us all as well as to Count Saxe. My master came down the stairway three steps at a time.
I feel just like fainting," she murmured. Meanwhile the two uniformed men were carrying Mr. Day into the house. "Right up here!" cried Miss Peckham from the stairway. "No," said Mr. Day, "put me on the couch in the living room. Fix it, Janice." At this Janice awoke from her apathy. She rushed in ahead and fixed the pillows on the couch, and got a warm cover to put over him.
Still" and he glanced down with a wry smile at his knee, which was bent a trifle "it was unfortunate you and the doctor did not get me earlier. There are disadvantages in being all one's life a cripple." As fate would have it they were interrupted before Miss Deringham could answer, and Alton limped down the stairway very grim in face, while Thorne appeared sympathetic when he overtook him.
Smoothly and swiftly he ascended toward the cave of Pan-at-lee while from below Tarzan and Ta-den watched him. "How does he do it?" asked Tarzan. "I can see no foothold upon that vertical surface and yet he appears to be climbing with the utmost ease." Ta-den explained the stairway of pegs. "You could ascend easily," he said, "although a tail would be of great assistance."
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