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Tell me if you, too, can detect the change." I clapped the receiver quickly to my ear. Indeed I could tell the difference. In place of the load buzzing there was only a mild sound. It was slower and lower. "That means," he said excitedly, "that some one has entered that pitch-dark storeroom by the broken window. Let me take the receiver back again. Ah, the buzzing is coming back.
"I could give more than a wedding dress if the Confederacy called for it, my dear," she answered. "Indeed, I'm not perfectly sure that I couldn't give the Major himself but go upstairs and wait for me while I send Car'line for the keys." She returned to the storeroom, and Betty went upstairs to wander leisurely through the cool faintly lighted chambers.
He fills himself up with cheap truths, with gnawed morsels of musty wisdom, and he exists like a storeroom where a stingy housewife keeps all sorts of rubbish which is absolutely unnecessary to her, and worthless. If you touch such a man, if you open the door into him, the stench of decay will be breathed upon you, and a stream of some musty trash will be poured into the air you breathe.
"Gone?" came from Snuggers. "Yes, gone. Snuggers did you leave the door unlocked?" "No, sir, I couldn't get the key in the lock. Here it is." And the general utility man produced it. "Ah! here is a key on the inside. What can this mean?" "I don't know, sir. I left him a-groanin' only a few minutes ago." "It is very strange." Jasper Grinder gazed around the empty storeroom.
"You don't suppose that I can see your birds in this black oven, do you?" she asked, laughing. Marjolin did not reply at once; but presently he stammered out that there was always a candle in the storeroom. He was fumbling about the lock, and seemed quite unable to find the keyhole.
I employed the early part of the forenoon in satisfying myself that the prisoners were properly secured, taking the precaution to have them all put in irons, as, in the exhausted condition of my own crew, I could not afford to run any unnecessary risks, and as soon as I had eased my mind of that anxiety, I personally investigated the condition of the schooner's storeroom.
"Ah! my son, I thought not to hear you call mercy and honesty mere niceness." "What do I hear?" exclaimed Frau Kunigunde, entering from the storeroom, where she had been disposing of some spices, a much esteemed commodity. "Are you chiding and daunting this boy, as you have done with the other?" "My mother may speak to me!" cried Ebbo, hotly, turning round.
"Will you show where your room is on the drawing?" "Here." "And Mr. Vail's?" "Next, connecting through a bath-room." "Where was Mr. Vail's bed on the chart?" "Here, against the storeroom wall."
The abrupt transition from the glare of the sands and sun to the semi-darkness of the storeroom at first prevented him from seeing anything, but he was instantly distracted by a scurrying flutter and wild beating of the walls, as of a caged bird.
You can therefore make use of what scenery you require, under the circumstances, without the drop curtain; but I have a first-rate green baize in the storeroom and I will loan all of it to you. My property room is well stocked, and you can have the use of the props. Moreover, I'll send my stage manager up to Gotown to help you on one condition." "Name it, Governor."
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