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Updated: May 17, 2025
Having left the carriage and passed into the house, Eve paused for a moment at the foot of the stairs to give an order to Crapham, who was still in attendance in the hall; and again Loder had an opportunity of studying her. As he looked, a sharp comparison rose to his mind.
I wasn't in the study more than a minute more than five or six minutes " His voice became confused; the strain of the connected recital was telling upon him. With nervous haste he made a rush for the end of his story. "I wasn't more than seven or eight minutes in the study; then, as I came down-stairs, Crapham met me in the hall. He told me that Lillian Astrupp had called and wished to see me.
Then, still acting automatically, he moved to the door, opened it, and stood aside while she passed out into the corridor. In complete silence they descended the stairs and passed to the hall door. There Crapham, who had returned to his duties since Loder's entrance, came quickly forward with an offer of service.
His last impression, as the horses wheeled round, was of the open hall door Crapham in his sombre livery and the maid in her black dress, both silhouetted against the dark background of the hall; then, as the carriage moved forward smoothly and rapidly, he leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes. During the first few moments of the drive there was silence.
"A battery of servants in the house and nobody to open the hall door!" Allsopp looked embarrassed. "Crapham is coming directly, sir. He only left the hall to ask Jeffries " Chilcote turned. "Confound Crapham!" he exclaimed. "Go and open the door yourself." Allsopp hesitated, his dignity struggling with his obedience. As he waited, the bell sounded again. "Did you hear me?" Chilcote said.
She drew back into her seat, as the cab stopped before Chilcote's house. Simultaneously as they descended, the hall door was opened and a flood of warm light poured out reassuringly into the darkness. "I thought it was your cab, sir," Crapham explained deferentially as they passed into the hall. "Mr. Fraide has been waiting to see you this half-hour. I showed him into the study."
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