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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Why, my dear, are you ill?" Clem's mother deserted the door-casing and came quickly out. "Let me get you something." "Oh, no, no!" Polly sprang to her feet and hurried down the steps.
Then, as he let the curtain fall again, something stirred within him. He turned towards the inner room, and his mild voice called "Jess." His answer was a hollow echo that somehow jarred his nerves. But he called again "Jess." Again came the echo. Then Vada's small face appeared round the door-casing. "Mom-ma gone hoss-ridin'," she reminded him. For an instant Scipio's face flushed.
George leaned against the door-casing, and looked thoughtfully across the fields. "There are more turnpikes in life than one, my boy," he said kindly, "and every one has its toll-gate. There is the road to learning. I gave up everything to get through that gate, even my health. One cannot be anything or do anything worth while without paying some sort of toll.
Behind him the knob was rattled urgently, to an accompaniment of feet shuffling on the stone; and immediately if he were to make a logical deduction from the rasping and scraping sound within the door-casing the bell-pull was violently agitated, without, however, educing any response from the bell itself, wherever that might be situate.
He walked to it and flung it open. His anger had come to the overflowing of speech. At first he saw only a hand at the door-casing, groping with a blind man's uncertainty. Then he saw the old General. In the soul of Ramoni rose an awful revulsion against the old man.
At last, breathless and nearly beaten, he reached his goal and clutched desperately at the door-casing of the companion. He staggered within. And as he did so relief found expression in one fierce exclamation. "Hell!" he cried. And clambered down, bearing his unconscious burden into the safety of the vessel's interior. It was the final stage of her journey.
He hesitated, standing in the snow half way between the pung and the snow-smothered door of the hut. Sheltered as it had been by the hill and by the woods, the hut was not masked so much by the drifted snow on its front. They could see the upper part of the door-casing. "By gravy!" ejaculated Mr. Jaroth, "it don't sound human. I can't make it out.
They all moved toward the door. Kate passed first; then Eleanor. There hung beside the door-casing a hook, designed to hold the portière cord. Eleanor brushed too close; it caught in the lace at her throat. She pulled up with a jerk, gave a little cry; the lace held fast. She turned in the wrong direction. Bertram saw this tiny accident; he sprang forward, caught the lace, disentangled her.
This he did, but he might have saved himself the trouble, for the door was no more closed then than it was before. These bolts are very ingenious. The catch on the jamb of the door into which the bolt slides has three false screw-heads in it. In reality it is not attached to the door-casing at all, but is fastened to the body of the bolt by an unseen plate.
Kilgour admitted him to her suite she clung to the door-casing, exhibiting much trepidation. He stepped in, closed the door, and put his back against it. "Have you got those hysterics out of you so that you can listen to me and then talk sense?" he demanded, coarsely.
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