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No light guided him to the garage door, and he was forced to seek for the handle by groping along the wall. Presently, his hand came in contact with it, he turned it and the way was open before him. Being far from familiar with the geography of the place, he took out a box of matches, and struck one to light him to the shelf above which the bell-push was concealed.
The house in Alameda Square was dark when he went up the walk; and while he was feeling for the bell-push his summoner called to him out of the electric stencilings of leaf shadows under the broad veranda. "It is too fine a night to stay indoors," she said. "Come and sit in the hammock while I scold you as you deserve." And when he had taken the hammock: "Now give an account of yourself.
There were lights in one wing of the house, and another appeared behind the fan-light in the entrance-hall when the leader of the three highbinders had tramped up the steps and touched the bell-push. Blount had a fleeting glimpse of a black head with a fringe of snowy wool when the door was opened, but he did not hear what was said. After the negro serving-man disappeared there was a little wait.
"I hoped you would, so I arranged minister's waiting now. Will you ring?" And he motioned feebly toward an electric bell-push that stood upon a small table beside the bed. And now once again as one in a dream she obeyed, and was presently aware of soft-treading figures about her in the dim chamber among them the Old Un whose shoes for once creaked not at all.
At this, the most inauspicious moment possible, his eye fell upon the calendar memorandum, "See Hallock about B/L.," and his finger was on the chief clerk's bell-push before he remembered that it was late, and that there had been no light in Hallock's room when he had come down the corridor to his own door.
He slippered out through the hall and through the surgery to the side door, I following, and Titus sneezing and snuffing in the rear. "I say, mester," said a heavy voice as the doctor opened the door. It was not Brindley, but Jos Myatt. Unable to locate the bell-push in the dark, he had characteristically attacked the sole illuminated window.
"No; that is, I guess not. Wait a minute." A touch of the bell-push brought Hallock to the door of the inner office. The green shade was pulled low over his eyes, and he held the pen he had been using as if it were a dagger. "Hallock, have you reported the disappearance of that switching-engine to Mr. Frisbie?" asked the superintendent.
"You are right," she murmured "unquestionably right, monsieur. We must have the surgeon in...." But when Lanyard advanced a hand toward the bell-push, to call the steward, she interposed in quick alarm: "No if you please, a moment; I must have time to think!" Her slender fingers writhed together in her agony of doubt and irresolution. "If only I knew what to do...." Lanyard was dumb.
He handed me the lens and I scrutinised every part of each hand without being able to detect the faintest trace of any recent wound. "There is one other matter that must be attended to before you go," said Thorndyke, pressing the electric bell-push by his chair. "I will take one or two prints of the left thumb for my own information."
Then he pressed the bell-push and, when Achille appeared, gave a curt order for supper to be served. As the Frenchman departed his quick eyes flickered a moment over Cara's beautiful face and milk-white shoulders. Decidedly, he reflected, his master had good taste.
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