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He seemed sufficiently drunk to execute his threat, and his invitation to supper was couched this time more in the terms of a command. At last he borrowed a stool from the Judge, who by now was his willing vassal, and planted himself in the hallway, where he remained throughout the performance a gloomy, watchful figure.
I'm just dying to get indoors anywhere." "But the screaming ghost," Tavia reminded her. "And the traveling lamp-post. I feel kind of scary " But Dorothy had poked her head in, and now stepped within the old hallway, so that there was nothing left for Tavia to do but to follow. "Here we are!" called Tom in that queer tone of voice peculiar to empty houses.
In his astonishment the servant insensibly relinquished his hold of the door knob and Britz stepped into the hallway, closing the door behind him. "You can't come in here!" exclaimed the servant, recovering from his surprise. "Get out!" Britz displayed the search warrant. "If you attempt to interfere with me I shall place you under arrest," he threatened.
And even in the dark top-floor hallway he was awed, and almost afraid. Then in the blackness, his eyes on the thread of light beneath the rear door, he advanced, reached up his hand, and knocked. There came, somehow surprising him, a definite, clear-edged voice: "Come in!" He opened the door, which swung just free of the narrow cot.
But in an instant long habit and an old fear that was greater than his new liking, asserted themselves. He slipped between Kendric and the door and at his glance the other servant joined him. The two glanced at each other and then at Kendric's set and determined face and then looked swiftly down the long hallway behind them.
"Of course not," said Mrs. Cooke, quizzically. At that moment, to my relief, I discerned the Celebrity and Mr. Cooke in the hallway. "Here they come, now," she went on. "I do wish Fenelon would keep his hands off the people he meets. I can feel he is going to make an intimate of that man. Mark my words, Mr. Crocker." I not only marked them, I prayed for their fulfilment. There was that in Mr.
But for all that she had a clear-cut vision of her husband's body, bloated with seawater, his blond hair streaming like kelp, rolling inertly in shifting waters. "He couldn't have fallen off the rocks," she declared firmly. "There THERE he is now." She heaved a great sigh of relief as a heavy tread sounded in the hallway below. She ran to the banisters, looking over, and calling, "Oh, Mac!
On the reverse side were the tell-tale letters, "Y.W.C.A." "They are ready for all kinds of customers. I wonder how they'll like me!" was the humorous thought which flitted through his mind as he quietly turned the knob. It opened readily. Bobbie stood inside the hallway, face to face with the redoubtable Pop! Pop's eyes protruded as they beheld this horrid vision of a bluecoat.
The children started violently and a scared, uneasy look went around the table. "The Society's agents," said Mr. Bingle, closing his lips tightly to prevent their trembling. "Freddy, will you please go to the door?" "Beg pardon, sir," said Watson, almost reproachfully despite his lordly air. Then, with stately tread, he passed into the little hallway and threw open the outer door.
The hallway was as empty and silent as he had expected to find it. He had no fear of disturbing the household, for his slippers were of felt and silent and the stairs were of stone and creakless.
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