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Updated: June 10, 2025
Lounging against a door-jamb, quite at home, he genially puffed an unspeakable cigarette and nodded approbation of Maitland's every other word. But Hickey Hickey bristled belligerently. "Fine," he declared acidly; "fine and dandy. I take off my hat to yeh, Dan Anisty. I may be a bad actor, all right, but yeh got me beat at the post." Then turning to the policeman, "I got him right. Look here!"
Rhoda Gray was standing upright in the little hallway now, and now, pressed close against the wall, she edged toward the door-jamb. And a queer, grim little smile came and twisted the sensitive lips, as she drew her revolver from her pocket. The merciless, pitiless way in which the newspapers had flayed the White Moll was not, after all, to be wholly regretted!
But over his first blind, incredulous rage there swept a passionate longing to be alone in the house to sit in it and look about him and assure himself. Without thought of what he did, he touched the door-jamb reverently as he stepped across the threshold. He wandered from room to room, and even upstairs, feeling the groove in the oaken stair-rail familiar under his palm.
Coming to the back door of his house, that was within a stone's throw of the station, Henry Shepard stood with his hand on the door-jamb and watched the woman and the boy. Above the scolding voice of the woman his own voice arose. "Look out, Hugh," he called. "Be on the jump, lad! Perk yourself up. She'll be biting you if you don't go mighty careful in there."
He had become restless at the sound of conversation below, and had been looking round the door-jamb to see if by any chance a dog could get out. The entry of the nurse a moment since, with a proto-stimulant on a tray, had let him out to tear down the stairs to the garden, rudely thrusting aside the noble owner of the house, out of bounds in a dressing-gown and able to defy Society.
She looked straight at each man, at Bowles and Buckner, both impassive, at Calvin Blount, now beginning to flush under his fighting choler; yes, and at last at him, John Eddring, pale and serious, but steady as the door-jamb against which he leaned. "It was fortunate for us, sir, that you came," she said in a voice that did not tremble as much as did his in stammering a reply.
Jan sprang rashly to his feet and, losing his balance, rolled over. Rising again, with more of caution and considerable anger, he took a good look at the visitors, and glared with special severity at Desdemona, who serenely ignored his existence. Then, bracing himself firmly against the door-jamb, Jan opened his jaws and barked.
His toil- hardened, sun-browned hands were visibly quivering, his mouth was open, his lower lip twitching. "You can't mean it you can't be in earnest!" he gasped, leaning heavily against the door-jamb, actually pale with excitement. "Yes, I mean it, George." Saunders put his hand on the broad shoulder again. "And I hope you will take me up. You will be doing me a favor, you see.
It made his foreign-looking, coarsely handsome face detestable. "Pig!" exclaimed Virginie Poucette's sister. "That's a man well, look out! There's trouble brewing for him. If he only knew! If suspicion comes out right and it's proved well, there, he'll jostle the door-jamb of a jail." Jean Jacques stared after the man, and somehow every nerve in his body became angry.
Very quietly he rose to his feet, tiptoed to the window and looked out. At first he could see no one; then he saw the outer edge of a figure, pressed close to the wall of the house, standing upright beside the door-jamb. He crept back from the panes, so that he should not obscure the little light he had. Moving over to the right, he halted mid-way between the window and Spurling.
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