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The clink of glasses and shouts of laughter came through the peep-hole in the door into the dark hallway as Policeman Schultz bent over the stiff, cold shape. Some one had called him. "Denny," he said, tugging at his sleeve. "Denny, come. Your time is up. I am here." Denny never stirred. The policeman looked up, white in the face. "My God!" he said, "he's dead. But he kept his date."
"In the peep-hole!" exploded Ingred. "I could see right down into the church, and I watched you come in! I've been saving this up!" Egbert drew a long breath. "If I'd only known before!" he said slowly. "Ingred, stop laughing! You don't understand. Look here, will you go and tell Dad that you saw me there, and the exact day and time when it happened. You can remember that?"
The stolen interviews with the captive were as dear to her as to him; and so dear were they to him that, after months of imprisonment he declared that he had never been so happy in his life. IV. The Escape One night, as Fabrice looked through his peep-hole, he became aware of a light flashing from the town. Obviously some attempt was being made at signalling.
Then we mounted the castle wall, where it broods over a precipice of many hundred feet perpendicular, looking down upon a level plain below, and forth upon a landscape, every foot of which is richly studded with historic events. There is a small peep-hole in the wall, which Queen Mary is said to have been in the habit of looking through.
So, abandoning my peep-hole, I turned round, and with infinite care crawled back across the grass into the shelter of the trees. Once there, however, I rolled over on the ground and metaphorically hugged myself. The situation may not appear to have warranted such excessive rapture, but when a man is practically hopeless even the wildest of possible chances comes to him like music and sunshine.
"The widow woman she picked up her baby, and she run down the walk here, and out into the street screaming she was so glad," putting his eyes to the peep-hole again, "and the Virgin Mary come down the walk after her, and come through the gate, too; and that was all she seed the widow woman." "Did you know the widow woman?" He shook his head. "How do you know it?" "That was what they told me.
In an inner room are some fifty pairs of balls and chains, with anklets and handcuffs upon them, which have bent the spirit and body of many a resisting heart. Within are two condemned cells, perfectly dark, a faded flap over the window peep-hole, the smell from which would knock a strong man down. For in their centre lies the sink, ever open, and the floors are sappy with uncleanliness.
So I adopted what I regarded as the only practicable method of proving the truth of my opinion and saving the company's funds. An electric indicator, of my invention, enabled me to locate the Syx tunnel when I got near it, and I have met it end on, and opened this peep-hole in order to observe the doctor's operations. I feel that such spying is entirely justified in the circumstances.
Can you endure exposure? Laboring in all weathers? Subsisting on rough fare and sleeping as you may?" "I have camped in the northern forests." "Yes," mused the voice. "You look hardy." Average Jones arose. "You er are spying upon me, then," he drawled quietly. "I might have er suspected a peep-hole." He advanced slowly toward the door whence the voice came. A chair blocked his way.
As for the biped, with less noise, and even more alacrity, he had grasped his "Sam Nock," whose polished barrels just rested on the lower ledge of the little peep-hole; perhaps his eyes were as round as saucers, and heart beating fast and strong. Now for the struggle; pray heaven that I am cool and calm, and do not fire in a hurry, for one shot will either lose or secure my well-earned prize.
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