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Updated: May 19, 2025
"The carriage is ready," said Mrs. Schallibaum. "Let me light you down the stairs." She rose, and, taking the candle, preceded me to the head of the stairs, where she stood holding the light over the baluster-rail as I descended and crossed the passage to the open side door.
He would not have known it, so utterly were the thing's steps deadened by the stair-carpet, if the baluster-rail, which he himself held in his hand, had not shaken slightly. Some one was coming upstairs. And, as the ascent continued, Lupin became aware of the uncanny feeling that he heard nothing more than before.
Come down, Nick, and sing with us out in the street; for we're going to court, we're going to court to sing before the Queen! Hurrah, hurrah!" "Hurrah for good Queen Bess!" cried Nick; and up went his cap and down went he on the baluster-rail like a runaway sled, head first into the crowd, who caught him laughing as he came.
He rose dizzily, collided with the Chinaman bringing his tea, and made blindly for the stairs. Half-way up, he staggered; each step rose to meet him, then fell away from his foot the moment he touched it. He grasped the baluster-rail, and stood wildly clinging, like a shipwrecked sailor to a mast.
He staggered and descended a step before a groping hand checked him on the baluster-rail. "Nemesis! Is this an untimely joke of some sort, sir?" His accents quavered querulously; and P. Sybarite with a flash of scorn put his unnatural condition down to drink. "Far from it," he retorted ruthlessly. "The cat's out, my friend your bag lean and flapping emptiness!
Abruptly he stumbled against an obstruction, halted, and lighted a match. The insignificant flame showed him a flight of stairs, leading up to darkness. With a drumming heart he began to ascend, counting twenty-one steps ere his feet failed to find another. Then groping again, one hand encountered a baluster-rail; with this for guide he turned and followed it until it began to slant upwards.
Something subtly fascinating in Martha seemed to draw him after her, and he followed on upstairs, swinging himself athletically along, hand over hand, upon the baluster-rail, almost at her heels. "Say, don't you wonder what it is my mother's goin' to say to you?" he demanded disingenuously. Mrs. Slawson shook her head.
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