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He received his Letters-Patent only two years back. We date from Palmerston." The lodger came up the street just at that moment, and stopped and looked up at the Lion and the Unicorn from the sidewalk, before he opened the door with his night-key.
Tom had come in about ten o'clock the night before. He had forgotten his night-key, Sandy was out, and she had admitted him with her own key. He had said that he was very tired and was going, immediately to bed. Mr. Delamere seemed perplexed; the crime had been committed later in the evening than ten o'clock. The cook cleared up the mystery.
"You do not need advice, sir," said Theodore, speaking somewhat huskily and with a reverent touch in his voice. "Follow the dictates of your own noble soul in this as in everything, and you will be sure to do the best thing." It was two o'clock when Theodore applied his own night-key and entered his front door. The gas was still lighted in the back parlor, and thither he went.
No servants, no porters, not a soul to disturb us. This is my house and it's a corker. I might be away for a year and" here there was the crackling of a match "I've only to use my night-key to find everything a man wants right to my hand." The answer I failed to catch. I was simply paralysed by terror. Should their way lay through the drawing-room!
Lizzie stood quietly by him for a short while, and then walked on tiptoe to the door "It is George," said she, after peering into the gloom of their entry; "he has admitted him self with his night-key." The shuffling sound of footsteps was now quite audible upon the stairway, and soon the bloated face of Mr. Stevens's hopeful son was seen at the chamber door.
There's another day coming, and if there isn't, none of these little things we've been haggling over is going to count for much to any of us." Three minutes later the Honorable Senator Sage-Brush was letting himself into the sitting-room of his suite on the private dining-room floor by means of his night-key.
The key, not working well, he took it some days ago to the locksmith, and when the latter failed to return it, he laughed, and said he thought no one would ever think of meddling with his front door." "Is there more than one night-key to your house?" I now asked. She shook her head. "And when did Mr. Hasbrouck last use his?"
She could not yet comprehend what all this had to do with people she personally knew with her own kin. "He must not enlist, of course," she said curtly. "There are plenty of soldiers there will be plenty, of course. Something silenced her, something within her sealed her lips. She stood in silence while Craig fitted his night-key, then entered the house with him.
"The villain means to escape hanging if he can," muttered Theodore, under his breath. And now the dim moonlight showed the tall forms of three policemen approaching. He advanced and held a brief whispered conversation with them, then the four ascended the steps. Theodore applied his night-key, and with cat-like tread they moved across the hall, and the library door swung noiselessly open.
"True enough," answered Leslie. "Well, he is not the sort of man to talk about loosely in the streets; so wait a moment, until I use my night-key and we get up into my room. There we can smoke a cigar, and I will tell you all I know of him, which is just enough to excite my wonder to a much greater height than your own."
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