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But, if I speak to him inside a week, well ! Well, I gotta be going. Goodbye, honey." The cigar-stand girl turned to attend to an impatient customer, and the Girl Friend, walking with the firm and decisive steps which indicate character, made for the swing-door leading to the street. And as she went, the paralysis which had pipped Archie released its hold.
There was an official who took her parasol and his cane, and they were impressed by the fact of having to write their names side by side in the book Sir Owen Asher, Evelyn Innes. On pushing through the swing-door, they found themselves in a small room hung with the Dutch school.
"I dare say!" in different tones of angry incredulity. "He begs you to see that the swing-door is shut, as he does not wish his friend to imagine that he keeps a private lunatic asylum." A universal snort of indignation. "If we are bedlamites, we know who made us so. We will tell old Roger if he asks," etc.
So few seconds would have made the whole difference. But so engrossing had Dave found the contemplation of Michael Ragstroar and his yellow jug, so exciting particularly was its disappearance into the swing-door of the Wheatsheaf, that he forgot even the new mud that the men had spaded up with their spades. And these seconds slipped by never to return.
"He's got the money," thought Adams, as the glass swing-door was opened by a flunkey as magnificent as a Lord Mayor's footman, who took the visitor's card and the card of M. Thénard and presented them to a functionary with a large pale face, who was seated at a table close to the door.
That very hard Parisian face must have been as white as the powder that coated it. 'Coute, Ange'lique, gasped the perspiring bourgeois, 'écoute, je te supplie The swing-door received them and was left swinging to and fro. I wanted to follow, but had not paid for my bock. I beckoned my waiter.
And then, on the next day, lo and behold the two oldest are sought in marriage by Impossible to say by whom, for M. Joyeuse suddenly found himself under the porch of the Hemerlingue establishment, in front of a swing-door surmounted by the words, "Counting Room" in gold letters.
Then there was a swing-door leading direct to the street, and sideways into a small room indispensable to every office. Monckton entered this lobby, and inserted the numbered notes into young Clifford's coat, and the false keys into his bag. Then he whipped back hastily into the office, with his craven face full of fiendish triumph. He started for the detective.
From the kitchen beyond a savoury odour of steak and coffee penetrated the green baize swing-door which stood at one end of the room. "Is that steak nearly ready?" asked Grey irritably, as the girl flicked some crumbs from the opposite end of his table on to the floor, with that deft flourish of a dirty napkin which waitresses usually obtain.
He hadn't more'n got through the swing-door before Doris slumps in her chair, puts her face into her hands, and begins lettin' out the sobs reckless. Course, Westy jumps to the rescue and starts pattin' her on the back and offerin' soothin' words. So does Vee. "There, there!" says Vee. "We don't mind a bit. Such things are bound to happen." "But I I don't know what to do," sobs Doris.
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