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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Yes, I have, Robert," answered the old lady, calmly; "and but for the others I would have left the corridor-door unlocked also. I was mindful of them, though, and of thy reputation." "I'm thankful you had that much common-sense," muttered her son; "and now, with your permission, I will take that cup of coffee, which I suppose you intend for your young protegé, up to him myself."
It is a peculiarity of sheriffs and jailers to regard a prisoner as guilty until he has been proved innocent. Nevertheless this sheriff gave his mother permission to visit Rod as often as she liked; only charging her to lock the corridor-door both upon entering and leaving the jail. So the dear old lady again toiled up the steep stairway, this time laden with books and papers.
And with a gasp of fright she struggled up amid the litter and the rubbish of that uncanny room. "Oh!" she cried in terror, as a huge scorpion, malevolent, and with its tail raised to strike, scuttled away and vanished through a gaping void where once the corridor-door had swung. "Oh, oh! Where am I? What what has happened?"
His left hand remained free, to fling the little glass bombs. "Come! Come, meet 'em they mustn't trap us, here!" And together they crept noiselessly into the other room and thence to the corridor-door. Out they peered. "Look! Torches!" whispered he. There at the far end of the hallway, a red glare already flickered on the wall around the turn by the elevator-shaft.
Again and again he drew her to him and implanted upon her brow and eyes and lips his kisses. I could not stand the scene any longer. I started to the corridor-door, and then, as though for the first time either had known I was within hearing, they turned and stared at me. At last Bob gave a long deep sigh, then one of those reluctant laughs of happiness yet wet with sobs.
He thought it significant. Late one day of a most bitter winter, that season when, to the ecstatic amazement of a whole city-full of children, snow covered the streets ankle-deep, there came a soft tap on the corridor-door of this pair of rooms. The lady opened it, and beheld a tall, lank, iron-gray man, a total stranger, standing behind Monsieur George!
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