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"They generally have the stove lighted in the little room along the corridor. Go and see, Jim." Sproatly went out, and, as it happened, he was wearing gum-boots, which make very little noise. He proceeded along a dark corridor, and then stopped abruptly when he had almost reached a partly-open door, for he could see into a lighted room.
Through the partly-open door of the supper-room a banner of light fell crosswise on the corridor, throwing into relief the figures of the two women standing side by side with blanched faces, and for the moment there was an awful stillness. "Well thrust, Trotto!" shouted Simon from his lurking-place, too sure of the issue, and then he started back with a sickening chill.
Before the superintendent could reply, his partly-open door was further opened, and a little, bustling, eager-faced man, who wore large spectacles and carried a pencil behind his right ear, looked in. Brent recognized him as another of the half-dozen Hathelsborough men whose acquaintance he had made on former visits Peppermore, the hard-worked editor-reporter of the one local newspaper.
The body was made to sit erect, the back supported by the rock behind it; the feet were extended in a natural position, and the arms folded across the massive chest. The partly-open eyes seemed still to rest on the western horizon, behind which the sun had set.
And actually he would have touched it her hair! but for a voice which spoke sharply through the partly-open door: "You're wanted, Alban. Come!" And Amaryllis, in spite of fear and disgust, almost laughed at the disgust and fear in his face as he released her. "My men downstairs," he said. "Soon soon I shall see you again."
As she did, a bedlam of firing broke out, both from the two Assassins at the door and from outside. They both hit the floor and crawled out of line of the partly-open door; Verkan Vall recovered his submachine-gun, which he had set down beside Dalla's chair.
Michel Ardan was the first to get up; he climbed to the top of the projectile and closed a partly-open case. "Be quiet," said he in a whisper. "That animal will spoil my plan!" In the meantime Nicholl and Barbicane awoke. "Was that a cock?" said Nicholl. "No, my friends," answered Michel quickly. "I wished to awake you with that rural sound."
Bubb did not heed it. Her face set in the joy of battle, she turned from the room and ran upstairs. Mr. and Mrs. Cheeseman squeezed together at their partly-open door, were following the course of events with a delighted eagerness which threatened to break all bounds of discretion. Their grinning faces signalled to Mrs.
Beneath the thin, partly-open cambric her budding bosom rose and fell, marking a voluptuous valley on which, like the Shulamite's lover, one would never be weary to let one's kisses wander.
Lees sprang forward, pressed his weight against the partly-open portal; flashed his dark lantern on two figures struggling violently. His hand fell on the collar of Po Lun's antagonist; a policeman's "billy" cracked upon his skull. "Tie and gag him," said the captain. "Leave a man on guard.... The rest of you come on." Po Lun leading, they went, single file through utter blackness.
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