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Updated: June 17, 2025
This coal dust and these imprints were not here a few days ago, therefore some one has been here since and has evidently been at pains to lay a false trail!" With the intention of examining the servants' staircase again, he let himself out with a pass-key and began the descent.
Some day I hope to be able to thank you adequately. Good night!" Her pass-key grated in the lock. Opening, the door disclosed a dark and uninviting entry-hall, through which there breathed an air heavy with the dank and dusty odor of untenanted rooms. Hesitating on the threshold, over her shoulder the girl smiled kindly upon her commandeered esquire; and stepped within.
"What can it belong to?" "The wreck, perhaps." "Probably." "Looks like a steward's pass-key." "But what would they save it for? You don't think " "If we could get out to the wreck we'd see." "Yes, but we can't. There " "Look, Marian!" Lucile's eyes were large and wild. "The white line!" gasped Marian, gripping her arm. It was true.
Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee." It was past two o'clock when Mr John Forster returned from his chambers, and let himself in with a pass-key.
But my nerves, which he so much misjudged, were in so strange a disarray that speech was now become impossible; and we made the drive thenceforward in unbroken silence. When we arrived before the door of our destination, the young gentleman alighted, opened it with a pass-key like one who was at home, bade the driver carry the trunks into the hall, and dismissed him with a handsome fee.
The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, sure that there was a nest there, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting for the pistol-shot. It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. He had arrived just in the nick of time.
They ate and drank and slept and snored; they made pastoral visits through the surrounding community which were far from edifying; they gambled, and tippled, and sang most unspiritual songs; and keeping all the while their own private pass-key to Paradise tucked under their girdles, were about as jolly a set of sailors to Eternity as the world had to show.
Which of these two he prefers, a man with any youth still left in him will decide rightly for himself. He would rather be houseless than denied a pass-key; rather go without food than partake of stalled ox in stiff, respectable society; rather be shot out of hand than direct his life according to the dictates of the world.
It was moonlight, and I walked about, perhaps for an hour." "Did you meet any one?" "Not that I recollect. I walked out of town, on the turnpike." "When you returned to your boarding-house, did you meet any one?" "No, I let myself in with a pass-key. The family had retired, with the exception of Mr. Pinkham." "Then you saw him?"
Once or twice we heard the elevator door clang and waited expectantly, but nothing happened. I began to wonder whether, even if some one had a pass-key to the suite, we could hear him enter if he was quiet. The outside hall was thickly carpeted, and deadened every footfall if one exercised only reasonable care. The rooms themselves were much the same.
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