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From this he argued that they could not be very close to his door. Intently he listened, then located them they came from the garden. He felt for the bell-push that carried to Mr. Fletcher's room; put his thumb upon it; steadily pressed. Sleep toyed no tricks in Mr. Fletcher's bed.
Two or three attempts upon the bell-push brought no response, and he could hear no sound of life through the door. He waited composedly. It did not enter his head that all the occupants might be out; and he was right, for presently, after he had thumped on the door with his gloved fist, there was a slip-slap of feet within and a sloven of a woman opened to him. Mr. Baruch gave her his smile.
Saw Q.M.S. Beddem in the town. Took shelter in the King's Arms. Jug. 3. Went to Cornwall. Aug. 31. Returned. Billets received me very hospitably. Sept. 4. Private Budd, electrical engineer, dissatisfied with appearance of bell-push in dining-room, altered it. Sept. 5. Bells out of order. Sept. 6. Private Merited, also an electrical engineer, helped Private Budd to repair bells. Sept. 7.
Betty, who had occupied herself by replacing Matthew Arnold's poems in the bookcase, caught up the box of cigars that lay on the brass tray table by my side, and offered it to him. "Here is the smoke," she said. And when, after a swift, covert glance at her, he had selected a cigar, she went to the bell-push by the mantelpiece. "The drinks will be here in a minute."
Its feeble light revealed, not only the big limousine near which he was standing and the usual fixtures of a garage, but, dimly penetrating beyond into the black places, it also revealed something else.... The door in the false granite blocks was open! Soames, who had advanced to seek the bell-push, stopped short.
But all the same it astonishes no one when he is away for two days." "The Italians are like that," generalized Rufin unscrupulously. "His door is unlocked, Madame, and there is a picture in his room which is well, valuable." "He sold the key," lamented Madame, "and the catches of the window, and the bell-push, and a bucket of mine which I had neglected to watch.
The hemorrhage was altogether more severe than he had supposed. Not wishing to arouse his wife, he did not enter his dressing-room, which is situated between his own room and Lady Lashmore's; he staggered as far as the bell-push, and then collapsed. His man found him on the floor sufficiently near to the fender to lend colour to the story of the accident." Dr. Cairn coughed drily.
McVickar nodded and reached over to press the bell-push which signalled to his train conductor. "That is about all I have to say," he said, in dismissal of the two local officials. "Just nail Gryson up to the cross, where he belongs, and keep young Blount busy and out of town; I leave the details to you.
"It will be better for both of us if I say what I have got to say alone." The decision in his tone stopped her as her hand was half-way to the bell-push. She paused irresolute, and at last her hand dropped at her side. Foyle moved to her, laid a gentle hand on her shoulder and half forced her to a seat. After all, with all her beauty and her wits she was but a wayward child.
Next, he verified the position of different articles which Prasville had touched and replaced; and he searched them with his eyes, felt them with his hands, bending over them as though certain signs, known to himself alone, were able to tell him what he wished to know. Lastly, he grasped the knob on an electric bell-push and rang. The portress appeared a minute later.
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