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Updated: June 24, 2025
The telephone was in working order again, having unaccountably recovered, and I was using it when he came. He watched me quizzically from a position by the newelpost, as I rang off. "I was calling Miss Emily Benton," I explained, "but she is ill." "Still troubled with telephobia?" "I have other things to worry me, Martin," I said gravely, and let him into the library.
But Louis de Soyecourt had flung aside the passive, wrinkled face, and then, with a straining gesture, wiped the fingers that had touched it upon the sleeve of his left arm. He turned to the stairway. His hand grasped the newelpost and gripped it so firmly that he seemed less to walk than by one despairing effort to lift an inert body to the first step.
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