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Updated: June 20, 2025
It was a thing apart from the rest of the house a sort of family ghost-room: a chamber of horrors, seen but once a week. But it contained one thing at least of interest something that at once brought Sam and Yan together. This was a collection of a score of birds' eggs. They were all mixed together in an old glass-topped cravat box, half full of bran. None of them were labelled or properly blown.
"'It gives a girl a sort of Midas touch, Phil said last night; 'makes her able to gild even a garret and to turn any old place into a home, He was so charmed with everything about the flat that he said he wanted to move into one right away, and make biscuits himself on a glass-topped table, and do stunts with the fireless cooker like Joyce.
There was a faint metallic click, barely audible above his low-breathed exclamation and the door opened and closed behind him. The flashlight in his hand winked once and went out. Small, glass-topped counters were on either side of the somewhat restricted aisle in which he stood; directly in front of him, at the rear of the store, was a door, leading, obviously, to the living rooms beyond.
Marrineal's personal Jap took over the burden and conducted it and its owner to a small rear room at the top of the house. Banneker apprehended at the first glance that this was a room for work. Mr. Marrineal, rising from behind a broad, glass-topped table with his accustomed amiable smile, also looked workmanlike.
John paused at the threshold while the maid entered, returning in a moment to hold the door open for him again. As he stepped inside she went out into the corridor, closing the door after her. John found himself in a tiny room with brightly designed wallpaper, matted rugs, a wicker chaise longue, wicker glass-topped table, wicker tea wagon and wicker chairs, all decorated in a gay colored chintz.
He found M'Tosh sitting at Donohue's elbow, and the sounders on the glass-topped table were crackling like overladen wires in an electric storm. "Strike talk," said the train-master. "Every man on both divisions wants to know what's doing. Got your newspaper string tied up all right?" Kent made a sign of assent. "We are waiting for Mr. Patrick Callahan. Any news from him?" "Plenty of it.
He spoke as one who alludes to some trivial happening. Yet even his light words could not keep the shadow of tragedy from the room. Even at that instant Arnold seemed suddenly to see the flash of a hand through the glass-topped door, to hear the hoarse cry of the stricken man. "I saw nothing but the man's hand!" he muttered, in a voice which he would scarcely have recognized as his own.
In the centre of this room there stood several cases, glass-topped and lined with silk, wherein were little steel and iron rods, with brass tubes and divers other things, very bright and ingenious, though I could not devise for what end they had been put together. A gentleman-in-waiting came round with paper and ink-horn, making notes of our names and of our business.
My good host was greatly concerned, and begged to be allowed to take the damaged headgear away and have it brushed. After a little I consented, promising to walk round and look at the baths while he was gone. The next moment he had disappeared. I laid my stick and gloves on a glass-topped table and looked about me. Never before had I seen so many baths gathered together.
It was too late to go back and ask the butler for further guidance; already he was on his way to the cellar in quest of the evening's wine. As he stood irresolute a door across the hall opened and a man of his own age came out. Through the doorway, which the young man held open for an instant while he answered a question from somebody within, Ashe had a glimpse of glass-topped cases.
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