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I must have dropped it last night. I worked extra until after midnight, sir," explained Jack, "and on the way out I chased a mouse in here from the stairway, and when it ran under the safe I dropped to my knees to find it. The book must have fallen from my pocket. "But what is wrong, sir?" "The cash-box is not in the safe this morning."
"To the Tents of Purple and Gold, my darling?" she asked, smiling so bravely to hide her breaking heart. "Not just yet, dear; a bit further North first, I think." "For long?" "I do not know, dear. Bless me, O my mother." She blessed him and called to him as he stood at the head of the marble stairway: "Come back to me, my son!" "That, O woman, is in the hands of Allah, who is God."
A steep flight of stone steps led up to a door in this tower. The door was under a deep archway. The guide led the way up this stairway, and unlocking the door, admitted his party into the tower. They found themselves, when they had entered, in a small, square room. It occupied the whole extent of the tower on that story, and yet it was very small.
We started as if rudely awakened from a dream, while a sudden expression of fright swept across her face. "Oh, do not meet him," she begged piteously. "For my sake do not remain here." "I will go down the back stairway," I returned hastily, "but do you indeed mean it? may I come to you?" "Yes, yes; but pray go now!"
There were two ways by either of which she could go; a narrow rear stairway leading from the parlor straight to their bedrooms, and the broad stairway in the front hall. From the old maternal night-habit she started to take the shorter way but thought of the parlor and drew back. This room had become too truly the Judgment Seat of the Years.
Locke turned down again toward the stairway leading to the Graveyard of Genius, while Eva, nodding pleasantly to Zita and Balcom, mounted the stairs leading to her father's room. Zita turned questioningly again to Balcom. "Half of everything that girl possesses rightfully belongs to you," he whispered. Zita apparently did not understand. "What shall I do to obtain my rights?" she asked.
Now beat it, will ye, and trot out the kid, if ye don't mind." With a glad little cry Pollyanna turned and fairly flew down the stairway. "Oh, I'm here, I'm here, I'm right here!" she panted, stumbling forward. "What is it? Did Jamie send you?" In her excitement she had almost flung herself with outstretched arms upon the boy when Mary intercepted a shocked, restraining hand.
Then, when all was ready, the float was dropped out of sight so the submarine would lie on the surface, as we found her." "And now they're lifting the float?" asked Jimmie. "Exactly," was the reply. "Suppose you go outside, on the conning tower, and look about." "You bet," cried Jack, and then there was a rush for the stairway, or half-ladder, rather, leading to the tower.
A light was lit in one of the upper windows, the darkness seemed to deepen at that moment, a step was heard coming heavily down a stairway; and having named the inn to you, gentle reader, it is time for me to name the young man also, the landless lord of the Valleys of Arguento Harez, as the step comes slowly down the inner stairway, as the gloaming darkens over the first house in which he has ever sought shelter so far from his father's valleys, as he stands upon the threshold of romance.
The steps probably do not number more than twenty-five, but the distance from one side of the stairs to the other is twenty-seven feet. There are channels cut in the rock to carry the water that comes down these steps to the cisterns, two in number, one of which is a good-sized room cut in the rock at the side of the stairway.
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