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Updated: June 10, 2025
As he did so the solid mansion rocked like a skiff at sea; the heavy portico under which he had just passed fell with a terrific crash; all lights went out; while he, stunned and bleeding from the falling plaster, clung desperately to the banisters, still seeking to reach his father.
"You are right, Miss Vernor," agreed Mrs. Upjohn, drawing out her tatting from her pocket, and settling herself at it with an answering frown. "There are quite too many here. Some people never know when to stay away." "Oh, there's Bell. I hear her voice," called Mattie, running to look over the banisters. "She's got both Mr. De Forest and Mr. Moulton with her."
There is scaffolding up there, and it doesn't look very pretty. "Well, then we went upstairs, and I never saw such handsome stairs! They are marble, and so wide! and the banisters are the most elegant variegated marble,—a sort of dark brown, and they are so broad! Why, I should think they were a foot and a half broad, but then I don't know exactly how much a foot is.
She showed puzzlement. "A holiday? What, the office? All of you?" She had paused three steps from the foot of the stairs, her right hand on the banisters. His wife!... He slid his hand up the rail and rested it on hers. "Good lord, no. Not the office. No, I suddenly thought we'd have a holiday. You and I."
"No need to disturb anybody," said Laguitte on the landing; "my legs are not much better than yours, but if I get hold of the banisters I shan't break any bones. Now, my dear lady, I leave you happy; your troubles are ended at last. I watched Burle closely, and I'll take my oath that he's guileless as a child.
The ghostly head on the banisters might well be that of the low and brutal guardian, whose spirit would be the exact counterpart of his mind. The figure seen, and noises heard in the passage, point to the re-enaction of some tragedy, possibly the murder of the heir, or the slaughter of his cat, in either of which a bucket might easily have played a grimly significant part.
Half-way up the steps he called her, and, leaning against the rail of the banisters, he looked up at her. "When you come down I must see you, Frances and alone. I shall wait here for you." "I cannot see you alone. There will be no time." "Then we must make time. I tell you I must see you." Something in her eyes made him hesitate. He must try another way. "Listen, Frances.
I, however, instantly spoiled his harangue, by retaliating in a way that he little expected: I seized the gentleman, and, having sprung with him out of the door, I gave him, in spite of the most determined resistance, a cross-buttock, and pitched him a neat somerset over the banisters, into the landing-place of the ground-floor, before my friend Davenport had scarcely left his seat.
"Well, Sir Owen, she must have been doubtful if she had enough chloral to kill herself, for this is what I found." And the maid took out of her pocket several pairs of garters tied together. "You think she tied these together so that she might hang herself?" "There is no place she could hang herself except over the banisters.
He had led her up two short flights of stairs ivory white with carved banisters, she noticed, all as immaculately shining with soap and water as a Cape Cod interior to his own gracious drawing-room where Mrs. Finnigan was bowing and smiling a warmhearted Irish welcome to her.
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