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I caught at the door-edge, missed it and, tripping over a rent in the cheap mat that lay against the door inside, stumbled against the table-edge and clung there. And even after I had caught at it, and stayed my fall, that infernal door went creaking, creaking backward till it brought up against the wall.
The two boys realized suddenly that the attention of the two had been focused in their direction, and Jerry jumped back behind the shelter of the door-edge just in time to escape the blinding rays of the flashlights. Phil evidently realized that their time of grace was over and there was nothing to be gained in further delay. With raised pistol he stepped out into the light.
They had gone a good thirty feet, their nerves tingling with the hope of next-instant discovery, when Phil broke the silence with a low-toned sentence. "There's a house or cabin of some kind less than twenty feet away." Jerry did not look. His groping fingers had found something that felt like a door-edge. His hand closed over a knob.
The slim, tapering, sensitive fingers closed on the doorknob a thin ray of light began to steal through between the door-edge and the jamb and grew wider and the voices, from a confused murmur, became distinct.
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