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Updated: June 10, 2025
A few raps were attempted at the Sanatorium hall-door, as an intimation that a special eye ogled the visitors; and some projectiles which fell in the rear of the Kimberley Club indicated that the same vigilant optic was alive to the fact that Rhodes lunched there. It may here be mentioned that Mr.
"Why, I wasn't lost at all!" she declared happily. "And, oh, it was so good to have my questions all answered, and understand so many things I didn't once and to be where all the put-out lights go, and and where soda-water comes from. And I was so glad to get rid of Thomas and Jane and Miss Royle, and " The hall-door opened. She checked herself to look that way. Someone was entering with a tray.
But on a Tuesday night, at about half-past nine, there came precisely the same rapping at the hall-door, and went on, to the great annoyance of the master and terror of his wife, at intervals, for nearly two hours. After this, for several days and nights, they had no annoyance whatsoever, and began to think that nuisance had expended itself.
She laughed herself this time good-humouredly and then added quickly: "But tell him to come in, Mary Jane, and close the door. I hope to goodness he didn't hear me." At that moment the hall-door was opened and Mr. Browne came in from the doorstep, laughing as if his heart would break. He was dressed in a long green overcoat with mock astrakhan cuffs and collar and wore on his head an oval fur cap.
John ate a hearty dinner, when, failing to conciliate his wife, he went to his office. No sooner had the hall-door closed on him than Juliet arose out of her sackcloth and ashes, bathed her face, arranged her hair, and proceeding to the dining-room, so far forgot her intention of never eating again as to surprise the cook by her greediness.
The hall-door stood open; but the hall, as they entered it from the brightness without, was black at first, like a room unlighted.
Carlyle was nearly as quick as she; he caught her to him with one hand, and drew the window down with the other. To have these tidings told to her abruptly would be worse than all. By this time some of the servants had descended the other staircase with a light, being in various stages of costume, and hastened to open the hall-door. Jasper entered.
But while in the act of opening it, he glanced at the alarm-clock on the book-shelves, and ended by replacing the pouch, without loading his pipe. "Nine," he croaked, and again he stretched and yawned. A sharp knock sounded at the hall-door of the outer room. Before he could start in response, a second and far louder knock followed.
It seems natural to a man of decayed fortune to shut up his hall-door and sneak in and out of his habitation by some obscure portal. Now all was changed; a kind of antique primness, which had no taint of cockney stiffness, pervaded the scene.
Before him lies the hall-door, and that way safety lies, safety from that old gaunt, irate figure upstairs. He is not allowed to reach it, however just yet. A door on the right side of the hall is opened cautiously; a shapely little head is as cautiously pushed through it, and two anxious red lips whisper: "Mr. Curzon," first, and then, as he turns in answer to the whisper, "Sh Sh!"
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