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Updated: June 10, 2025
'A burglar got into the wine-cellar and collared all the coals. 'He didn't. He was in the hall, and my pater got his revolver 'While you hid under the bed. and potted at him over the banisters. 'The last time but three you told the story, your pater fired through the keyhole of the dining-room. 'You idiot, that was afterwards. 'Oh, well, what does it matter? Tell us something fresh.
No, not quite there," she said. "Shure, was not it over the banisters he hung himself, the ould sinner, God be merciful to us all? and was not it in the alcove they found the handles of the skipping-rope cut off, and the knife where he was settling the cord, God bless us, to hang himself with?
He stumbled and was noisy; she gave a start every time he knocked his foot against the stairs, every time the banisters creaked when he fell against them helplessly, and a terrible fear almost paralysed her. If anybody should hear it, oh, if anybody should hear it. But let them get on, on. "Quietly, Wölfchen, quite quietly." It sounded like an entreaty, and still it was a command.
No more shall we hear the young Christian slip on the golden stairs and roll down with his boot heel pointing heavenward, while the wail of a soul in anguish comes over the banisters, and the brother puts his hand on his pistol pocket and goes out the front door muttering a silent prayer, with blood in his eyes.
She had not actually seen him come in, having been in the kitchen, but she heard his latch-key, followed by his light step up the stairs. A JURYMAN: How do you know it was not somebody else? WITNESS: He called down to me over the banisters, and says in his sweetish voice, "Be hextra sure to wake me at a quarter to seven, Mrs. Drabdump, or else I shan't get to my tram meeting."
She squealed indeed, but horror of horrors! she squealed in French, with such staccato "Oh's" and "Ah's" of astonishment as could only have come from one person in the house. It was Mademoiselle herself! and lifting her glance she beheld six horrified faces peering at her over the banisters, six pairs of startled eyes, six mouths agape with dismay.
He leaned over the banisters, as the bell of the front door was rung. 'Miller, Miller, let Mr. MacKenzie in. 'Very good, sir, answered the butler. Lucy had heard the cab drive up, and she came into the drawing-room with Lady Kelsey. The elder woman had broken down altogether and was sobbing distractedly. Lucy was very white, but otherwise quite composed. She shook hands with Dick and Mrs.
I was upstairs when I heard his deep cheery voice crying to the inspector from Scotland Yard: "Hulloa, Thorpe. What's occurred? My friend Doctor Boyd has just wired to me." "Murder," responded the inspector. "You'll find the doctor somewhere about. He'll explain it all to you. Queer case very queer case, sir, it seems." "Is that you, Ambler?" I called over the banisters. "Come up here."
"Wonder how much he has won, and whether it makes him feel better? I know one thing: it makes me feel a deal worse, and as if I should like to pitch him over the banisters. I 'ate that chap that's what's the matter with me and I'd tell him so to his face as soon as look at him, that I would!"
Tom dashed on merrily, and a minute later he heard his mother's voice in the hall, with a quick note of anxiety in it. "What is it, nurse?" "It's Miss Susie," said nurse, "and Master Dick." Tom hung over the banisters to hear more. "I left them out on the beach for a bit, whilst I came in to make the tea; and they had my orders to come when I signalled, but they never took no notice.
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