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The large rafters were here and there engraven with rude marks and patterns; the hand-rail of the stair was carved in countrified arabesque; a stout timber pillar, which did duty to support the dining-room roof, bore mysterious characters on its darker side, runes, according to the Doctor; nor did he fail, when he ran over the legendary history of the house and its possessors, to dwell upon the Scandinavian scholar who had left them.
He went aft for Rajah, and when he returned in a minute Captain Riggs was standing at the head of the fore-deck ladder waiting for them. Harris whispered something, and I saw the three figures descend to the fore-deck and heard them enter the companionway to the lower deck. I followed them. Clutching the iron hand-rail of the ladder leading to the fore-deck, I went down as quickly as I could.
His companion, a tall, well-built man, having a smooth face, and a very erect carriage, walked with a business-like step down the platform until he reached the express car. Tossing the valise which he carried into the car, he climbed in himself with the aid of the hand-rail on the side of the door, and, as the messenger came toward him, he held out his hand, saying: "Is this Mr. Fotheringham?"
"What is that following us?" asked Bucks. "It's the fast mail," said Halkett. Guilford turned livid and caught at the hand-rail. "S-s-say are you sure of that?" he gasped. "Of course: it was an hour and thirty-five minutes late, and we are on its time." "Then we can't stop unless somebody throws us on a siding!" quavered the receiver, who had a small spirit in a large body.
He set about it at once, and, although he found it more difficult than he had expected, succeeded at last in building a safe stair between the boughs, with a hand-rail of rope on each side. But Willie had chosen to ascend in this direction for another reason as well: one of these boughs was in close contact with a bough belonging to one of the largest of the red firs.
But the man was too eager not to let Johnny go too far before him; he did not observe that Johnny went some distance round before he turned down the steps. There was no hand-rail to this dark flight of steps, and he walked straight over into the opening. "Hold! hold! Heavens! the man's gone, didn't I tell him! A heavy plunge and a groan announced the man's descent into the cellar.
The sound of a horse galloping made him turn round, when he saw Willy Dickson going straight for the hand-rail near the house, and near where his grey was hitched. As Dickson came up he tried to make his horse jump; instead, it baulked, and blundered into the rail, carrying away some distance of it and liberating Tony's horse.
The steamer chair had been tightly tied to the brass stanchion, or hand-rail, that ran along the side of the housed-in portion of the companion-way, and although the steamer swayed to and fro, as well as up and down, the chair was immovable.
The hand-rail to which she was already clinging skirted the iron stairs leading to the light, and she started at once up this narrow spiral. She was met at the door by Copernicus, who was smiling with a proud complacency. "Wal, Cousin Rebecca," he said, with a sweeping gesture indicating their general surroundings, "what d'ye think o' this?"
"You can come right along up," the landlady called down through the oval spire formed by the ascending hand-rail of the stairs. They found her in a broad, low room, whose ceiling sloped with the roof, and had the pleasant irregularity of the angles and recessions of two dormer windows.
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