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Updated: May 31, 2025
There was only one upper storey, and the roof was crowned with a small stack of hideous metal chimneys. 'We must go round to the caretaker's house, said Egremont, when they had cast their eyes over the face of the edifice.
A few doors short of the gateway leading into Palace Gardens was an unpretentious Italian restaurant where he proposed to dine. For it grew late. He had spent longer than he had supposed in wordless prayer before the altar of his dead. The remembrance of the book-loving little caretaker's gratitude remained by him pleasantly, softening his humour towards all his fellow-men.
Within the walls is the caretaker's cottage in the midst of such a wealth of trees, flowering shrubs, and vines as makes a greenwood retreat. The grass-grown embrasures and the drooping branches over them form frames for river views that seem set there in place of the rusty cannon pieces. It was toward evening when we started back across the island, houseboatward.
"Good; I applaud your discretion," he rejoined. The caretaker's supposition was correct. When he returned, he was accompanied by a burly constable, who saluted us with a cheerful smile and glanced facetiously round the empty room. "Our boys," said he, nodding towards the broken window; "they're playful lads, that they are. You were passing when it happened, sir, I hear."
'Do you know whether any one lives on these premises? Luke asked at once. He excited suspicion, but after a short dialogue the constable showed him the approach to the caretaker's house. He knocked at the door several times; at length it was barely opened. 'Is that Mrs. Butterfield? 'Yes. What may you want? 'I want to know, if you please, if Mr.
Skirting the southern end we follow the road to the caretaker's house, tie our horses, and walk down to the dam, and then on the flume or by its side to a point overlooking Lake Tahoe, from which a marvelously expansive view is to be obtained.
"Stop a minute there's one thing that should be thought of. My cousin Barthorpe " "Mr. Barthorpe Herapath has been sent for, miss he'll be here presently," replied the inspector. "The caretaker's telephoned to him. Now gentlemen."
The next day she was wrapped in cloaks and carried downstairs between her brother and Mrs. Halfpenny, laid on a mattress in the Merrifield waggonette, which went up the hill at a foot's pace, and by the same hands, with her old friend the caretaker's wife going before, was taken upstairs to a beautiful large room, with a window looking out on vernal sky and sea.
Under each window each ladder opened out into a little, a very little, balcony. The rest was straighter than a ship's mast. The caretaker's wife followed, panting; came out into the sunshine, and, shading her eyes, took stock of the ground. "He'll be No. 42 on the Fifth. Thin this ladder goes up to it.
The sketch entitled "The Black Tower" exhibits the other side of the gateway, and shows the road with the caretaker's house, and our barricades to the right.
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