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Updated: May 31, 2025
I escorted my guest to the carriage, and I was agreeably surprised when I got back to find the doorkeeper's two charming daughters. He knew my tastes, and that when there were pretty girls in a house, the less I saw of him the better I was pleased.
The doorkeeper's manners underwent an instantaneous change, and from the fierce bully he softened to the fawning panderer. "I axes yer pardon, gents, 'cos I didn't know ye, and 'sposed you was sneaks from Melbourne. "You're the fellow for us," cried the inspector, slapping him on his back with pretended frankness. "Bring on the lush, and hang the expense.
And yet, fate so willed it that the doorkeeper's message and his urgent appeal that Lecoq should not loiter on the way, produced the most unfortunate results.
A Sister of Charity was watching beside him, and she seemed so surprised and anxious at the arrival of a visitor whom she did not know, that Pierre understood she was there to guard the dying man and prevent him from having intercourse with others. The old priest must have employed some stratagem in order to send the doorkeeper's boy to fetch him.
She confirmed the doorkeeper's story, but unfortunately she, too, had quite forgotten the number of the vehicle. All she could say was that she had hired it at the cab stand in the Rue Soufflot, and that the driver was a portly, pleasant-faced man. Chupin repaired at once to the Rue Soufflot, where he found the man in charge of the stand in the most savage mood imaginable.
Last night" Gatton glanced at me sharply "Marie, the maid, came down after Sir Marcus's card had been sent to the dressing-room and talked for several minutes to the late baronet, just by the doorkeeper's box, but out of earshot. That was at ten o'clock. At eleven, that is after the performance, Sir Marcus returned, and again Marie came down to see him.
The doorkeeper's office may be given him, not because he has done some great deed worthy of the honour, but because he can sweep the porch and scour the threshold, and will, in the main, try to keep them clean. That is all the worthiness I dare to claim, even to hope that I possess." "No one who knows you can mistake your words, except wilfully," returned Percivale courteously.
"A little charity, kind gentleman," he whined as he came nearer. "In here, Papa Tignol," beckoned Coquenil; "there's something new. It's all right, I've fixed the doorkeeper." And a moment later the two associates were talking earnestly near the doorkeeper's lodge.
It was not yet three o'clock, and M. Paul, in the real burglar spirit, reflected that his departure with a bag, at this unseasonable hour, might arouse the doorkeeper's suspicion; whereas, if he waited until half past five, the gate would be open and he could go out unnoticed. So he decided to wait.
He looked after her as she disappeared into the darkness, a little frown gathering on his forehead, then with a shrug of his shoulders he walked slowly back to the doorkeeper's office. "Send somebody to get my car," he snapped. He waited impatiently, chewing his cigar, till the dripping figure of the doorkeeper reappeared with the information that the car was at the end of the passage.
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