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Updated: May 8, 2025
"You have your tools?" Ffoulkes nodded, and anon in this squalid room, ill-lit, ill-ventilated, barely furnished, was presented one of the most curious spectacles of these strange and troublous times: two English gentlemen, the acknowledged dandies of London drawing-rooms, busy picking locks and filing hinges like any common house-thieves.
"HOUSE-thieves as well as " "Goodnessgracioussakes, I'd a ben afeard to live in sich a " "'Fraid to LIVE! why, I was that scared I dasn't hardly go to bed, or get up, or lay down, or SET down, Sister Ridgeway. Why, they'd steal the very why, goodness sakes, you can guess what kind of a fluster I was in by the time midnight come last night.
"HOUSE-thieves as well as " "Goodnessgracioussakes, I'd a ben afeard to live in sich a " "'Fraid to LIVE! why, I was that scared I dasn't hardly go to bed, or get up, or lay down, or SET down, Sister Ridgeway. Why, they'd steal the very why, goodness sakes, you can guess what kind of a fluster I was in by the time midnight come last night.
Now one-half of that vista was shut off by the massive door, the other was unobscured, but even as with beating heart, still as a trembling mouse, she sat and gazed, something glided slowly, stealthily, noiselessly between her and those betraying lights, something dark, dim, and human, for the shape was that of a man, a native, as she knew by the stiffly brushed-up hair above the forehead, the loosely falling shirt a native taller than any of their household servants a native whose movements were so utterly without sound that Maidie realized on the instant that here was one of Manila's famous veranda-climbing house-thieves, and her first thought was for her revolver.
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