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Updated: May 20, 2025
Without the slightest hesitation, and behaving like one who was quite at home, he entered the great oak-floored hall, and looked round not at the groups of weapons and suits of armour that were arranged as trophies about the place, nor yet at the pictures and various interesting objects hung between the stained-glass windows, on the oaken panels surrounded by carving and surmounted by the heads and antlers of deer killed on the adjacent moor.
A square oak-floored hall lay beneath them, from which opened the doors of the principal guest-chambers. This hall was as light as day, for torches burned in numerous sconces upon the walls, throwing strange shadows from the tusked or antlered heads which ornamented them.
The voice filled the walls that held it lovingly to the last perfect note, but there came no answering shout such as I had heard in the garden. We hurried on from room to oak-floored room; up a step here, down three steps there; among a maze of passages; always mocked by our quarry. One might as well have tried to work an unstopped warren with a single ferret.
The sound of some one running downstairs reached his ears; next it came from the oak-floored hall, diminishing; then a door possibly one with a spring went shut with a smash. Silence for a brief space, then noise from the back of the house. It was now or never. Up the steps he bounded, yet halted to clean his boots on the mat.
The two more stories above consisted, on the first floor, of a row of large rooms, airy, high, and dignified, and in the attics of a series of low-pitched chambers, whitewashed, oak-floored, and dormer-windowed, where one or two of the servants slept in splendid isolation.
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