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The Prussians were beginning to suspect the trick she had played them, and presently the officer came up the narrow staircase, and knocked at the trap-door. "Open the door!" he cried. "What do you want?" she said, rising from her seat and approaching the cellarway. "Open the door!" "I won't do any such thing!" "Open it or I'll break it down!" shouted the man angrily. She laughed.
"What difference is it to you where you take your airing? Come on. I assure you you will see something unusual." "Oh! you brought me here on purpose?" "Yes." "Why didn't you say so?" He followed Des Hermies into the darkness under the porch. At the back of the cellarway a little essence lamp, hanging from a nail, lighted a door, the tower entrance.
This singular object appeared up the trap of a cellarway, much like the opening of a sewer, on the opposite side of the street. She proceeded to review the vagabonds and put questions and issue orders to each, which were received like mandates from Cæsar by his legions.
The boys opened the hall door into the cellarway, and found there Snoop on his cushion and Fluffy on hers. "It wasn't the cats," they declared. "What could it be?" Uncle Daniel even lighted the piano lamp, which gave a strong light, but there didn't seem to be any disturbance about. "It certainly was the piano," he said, much puzzled. "And sounded like a cat serenade," ventured Harry.
The effect of the buildings vaulted above the sidewalks is that of a continuous cellarway; your view of the street is constantly interrupted by the heavy brick pillars that support the arches; the arcades are not even picturesque.
He pulled Hagan to the cellarway, and stealthily lifted one side of the double trapdoor. There was a chance, desperate enough, one in a thousand but still a chance! Voices from the house came plainly now, but there was no one in sight. The police, to a man, were evidently all inside. From the road in front showed the lamp glare of their automobile. "Run for the car!"
"Oh-h-h!" she gasped in relief. "You'd better stay cached." Nell Beecroft eyed, with a look of contempt, the woman for whom she had lied. "Dan Treu was here; he's got a warrant." "I don't care I'll not go down there!" She pinned wildly at the loosened knot of dull red hair which lay upon her shoulders. "That was fierce!" She looked in horror down the dusky cellarway. "What ails you, Harpe?"
The noise of the striking pieces of lumber against one another had not been heard for more than twenty minutes. In fact, no sound of any kind came up the cellarway following the first quarter of an hour of rapid labor on the part of the five active searchers below.
I sat on two cleated boards placed across the box, with a blanket over me and my new overcoat and mittens on, and was very comfortable and happy. I had taken a little of my uncle's chewing tobacco out of its paper that lay on a shelf in the cellarway, for I had observed that my uncle generally chewed when he was riding. I tried a little of it and was very sick for a few minutes.
The Prussians were beginning to suspect the trick she had played them, and presently the officer came up the narrow staircase, and knocked at the trap-door. "Open the door!" he cried. "What do you want?" she said, rising from her seat and approaching the cellarway. "Open the door!" "I won't do any such thing!" "Open it or I'll break it down!" shouted the man angrily. She laughed.
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