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Later, more retired rooms were added, and gradually the hall became more and more an entranceway or passageway in the house, communicating with its different parts. When houses began to be built more than a single story in height, the staircase became an important feature of the hall, and balconies were also introduced overlooking this great room, which was often the full height of the building.
'Come along, my son, said Jüchziger very blandly. 'I have something to tell you. So saying, he drew the boy aside into the passageway of the town hall. 'Listen to me, he went on good-humouredly; 'I want you to do something for your mother. 'For my mother! said Conrad cheerfully. 'Oh yes; I shall be so glad to do it! 'And for you and me at the same time, said Jüchziger.
Think it over till morning, and then give your consent with the full assurance that it will mean happiness for the girl whom you and I so dearly love." The old man rose, took my hand, held it in his feeble grasp for a moment, and went to his room without another word. As I was going down the narrow passageway to my bedroom, Frances opened her door and asked: "What does father say?
In the dingy passageway he perceived a tall figure which immediately turned out to be that of an old gentleman. In spite of the heat, he wore a long coat and an old-fashioned, high collar, a black tie, under which was exposed a triangle of immaculate, pleated linen.
Before Frank could recover, Blosberg had darted down the hall and turned into a narrow passageway at the end of it, disappearing just in time to escape a bullet from Jack's revolver, the lad appearing on the second floor at that moment. He dashed after Blosberg.
So by and by he left that place and went very quietly back into that passageway whence he had come. And when he had come there he perceived a great glaive upon a pole two ells long. This he took into his hand and returned unto that curtained doorway again. Then being in all ways prepared he parted the curtains silently and stepped very quickly and without noise into the room.
They were brave men but under the circumstances they were helpless and so they fell back the way they had come, and when they reached the narrow confines of the smaller passageway their safety was assured since only one foeman could attack them at a time. But their plans were frustrated and possibly also their entire cause lost, so heavily had Ja-don banked upon the success of their venture.
These wires, to-night, were not charged. And, with pliers, the lieutenant and Mahan started to cut a passageway through them. As the very first strand parted under his pressure, Mahan laid one hand warningly on the lieutenant's sleeve, and then passed the same prearranged warning down the line to the left. Silence moveless, tense, sharply listening silence followed his motion.
As the two girls returned, in the dusk of evening, to the long dark passageway that led to the tenement in which they now had rooms, Mildred trembled with fear as she saw that its entrance was surrounded and blocked by a group of rough-looking young men and boys. Belle pushed boldly through them, although they leered, laughed, and made coarse jests.
As he did so, there came a rattling clash of arms from a passageway at the lower end of the hall and a deafening din of drums. Pontiac started, dropped the belt of wampum, thrust a hand within his blanket, as though to draw a weapon, reconsidered, folded his arms, and stood motionless.
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