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Updated: June 4, 2025
Shortly below the knee this is diverted by the base-board and at the bottom squarely stopped by the solid rectangle of the stool. Suppose that the picture on the wall were missing; not only would the long parallelogram of the curtain be unrelieved, but the return of the line to the subject in the ensemble of the picture would be broken. This, therefore, becomes the keystone of the composition.
One of these places, restored after the war as a cotton factor's counting-room again, had, until a few years ago, a queer, clumsy patch in the plastering of one wall, near the base-board. Some one had made a rough inscription on it with a cotton sampler's marking-brush. It commemorates an incident.
Again the man coughed to drown perhaps the slight rasping sound as the base-board slid back into place and, rising to his feet, shuffled hastily to the door and unlocked it.
And then, returning abruptly to the loosened section of the base-board, he restored the make-up box to its hiding place.
For the rest straw was littered down as if for horses, and when the pillows gave out, head-rests were made by tearing off the backs of the pews and nailing them slantwise from the base-board to the floor, so that knapsacks, coats, etc., could be used for pillows. The order had reached Ringgold about noon; it was ten at night before the rough preparations were completed.
She must have been here, then, many times before ... she knew the Sanctuary as well as he did ... she knew the secret hiding place behind the base-board ... she had come, of course, knowing he was absent ... she might come some day thinking he was absent ... yes, why not why not ... perhaps perhaps that was the way ... some day she might come again....
Having finished her tour of inspection, she went in and led me on an investigating trip all through the house, smelling of every corner and base-board, and insisting that every closet door should be opened, so that she might smell each closet through in the same way. When this was done, she settled herself in one of her old nooks for a nap and allowed me to leave.
That collection of little steel picklocks and a jimmy! He would need those. He felt for them in one of the pockets of the leather girdle, transferred them to the pocket of his ragged trousers, and slipped the base-board back into place. And now he stepped to the gas-jet, and turned out the light.
It was covered with carpet, like the rest of the hall, but this did not disguise the fact that it sloped a trifle toward the outside wall. Had not the idea been preposterous, I should have said that the weight of the cabinet had been too much for it, causing it to sag quite perceptibly at the base-board. But this seemed too improbable to consider.
He slipped the flashlight into his pocket, took his automatic from the discarded garments of Smarlinghue and, thrusting the ragged clothing into the opening, put the removable section of the base-board back into place. And now, twin to that streak of lesser gloom that came from the top-light, another filtered into the room.
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