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Updated: June 9, 2025
Diane nodded, and Tresler stepped aside. The girl's hand was on the door-latch; she hesitated a moment and finally faced about. "Fyles is here now," she said significantly. "The raiders; do you think you ought " "I am going to see him." "Yes." The girl nodded. She would have said more, but her companion cut her short. "I must go," he said. Then he pointed over at the mare. "You see?" he added.
Even the click of her own gate as she opened it, the sound of her own feet on the path, the feel of the door-latch to her hand all the little common belongings of her daily life were turned into so many stationary landmarks to prove her own retrogression and fill her with horror. To-day, when people inquired for Lois, her mother no longer gave her customary replies.
At the Keeling Islands, at Rodriguez, and at many such places, a wisp of cocoanut fiber in the door-latch, to indicate that the owner was away, secured the goods against even a longing glance.
Nick heard a loud voice call outside the door-latch clicked behind him he was out in the open air and down the stage before he quite knew where he was. The stage was built against the wall just opposite the gates. It was but a temporary platform of planks laid upon trestles. One side of it was against the wall, and around the three other sides the crowd was packed close to the platform rail.
"Are you quite sure you don't want me to go in with you?" she asked, while Tom was fumbling the door-latch. He nodded and said: "There'll be trouble enough to go around among as many as can crowd in, all right. But I can't let you." "Still, you won't say you don't want me?" "No; lying isn't one of the things I was expelled for.
I looked down at the river far below, at the covered bridge, at the far lights on the hill above, opposite. Strange to be here in this lost, forgotten place, sleeping under the roof with tramps and beggars. I debated whether they would steal my boots if I put them out. But I risked it. The door-latch made a loud noise on the deserted landing, everywhere felt abandoned, forgotten.
"No, Dotty don't; her don't 'low me care nuffin there now!" cried Katie, very glad to tell her sorrows. "She's so little, you know, Aunt 'Ria," murmured Dotty, with her hand on the door-latch. There was a struggle going on in Dotty's mind. She wished very much to run away, and at the same time that "voice" which speaks in everybody's heart was saying, "Now, Dotty, be a good girl, a noble girl.
From that instant his eyes were on the watch, under dark of closed lashes; but his even breathing was that of the seventh stage of sleep that knows no dreams. A click of the door-latch heralded the appearance of a hand. With skill, of the sort that only special training can develop, a man in native dress insinuated himself into the carriage without making another sound of any kind.
And but for this; that I heard the door-latch click behind her, and then the heavy wooden bar fall into place, I might have thought the happenings of the hour the unsubstantial fancies of a dream.
Once beyond the village, where the cottages ceased abruptly, on either side of the road they could smell through the darkness the friendly fields again; and they braced themselves for the last long stretch, the home stretch, the stretch that we know is bound to end, some time, in the rattle of the door-latch, the sudden firelight, and the sight of familiar things greeting us as long-absent travellers from far over-sea.
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