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Updated: May 13, 2025
I wrote it, but I was so upset when I found I couldn't get the doorkey and get out that way that I left the note in my bureau drawer." "Tut, tut! Huh! Well, he may find it there; let's hope he does." "But he won't! He WON'T! He never finds anything, even if it's in plain sight. He won't know what's become of me " "And he'll most likely have the whole town out lookin' for you.
As they were buying their tamales from the half-breed Mexican at the street corner, McTeague observed: "Marcus ain't gone to bed yet. See, there's a light in his window. There!" he exclaimed at once, "I forgot the doorkey. Well, Marcus can let us in." Hardly had he rung the bell at the street door of the flat when the bolt was shot back.
At length the lady drew from underneath herself an exceedingly fat purse. "Fancy riding in a bumpby bus, perched up on that thing," he continued. "Think what a stamina they must have." He grew confidential. "I've seen one woman," he said, "pull out from underneath 'er a street doorkey, a tin box of lozengers, a pencil-case, a whopping big purse, a packet of hair-pins, and a smelling-bottle.
Now Gunch delighted them by crying to Mrs. Eddie Swanson, youngest of the women, "Louetta! I managed to pinch Eddie's doorkey out of his pocket, and what say you and me sneak across the street when the folks aren't looking? Got something," with a gorgeous leer, "awful important to tell you!" The women wriggled, and Babbitt was stirred to like naughtiness.
It was locked, and I had not hammered on its shining brass knocker before a neighbouring housewife put forth her head from a window in the gathering dusk, and informed me that the captain was not at home. He had gone out early in the afternoon, and left his doorkey with her, saying that he was off on a visit, and would not return before to-morrow afternoon at earliest.
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