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Moreover, although Ramsdell did know what to do, and did it, the stroke of midnight found him still staring at the dark with burning eyes, while the pillowcase underneath his head hissed faintly to the steady throbbing of his temples. The noxious, deadly poison of Mrs.
When Sylvia reappeared that noon she carried a pillowcase, which she held before her by its corners with care. She thought to slip around the house to the back door, but Edna and John rose from a corner of the piazza and greeted her. Dunham viewed the graceful bare head and warm, demurely smiling face in its tree setting as the girl approached.
What, in the name of mystery and night, had been going on during the interval? He began to shake all over feverishly. Whence came this noise that made everything in the darkness tremble? As he fumbled hurriedly for the matchbox, his fingers caught in the folds of pillowcase and sheet, and he struggled violently to get them clear again.
There had been issued to us sheets, a pillowcase, and a gray blanket of the army sort; our first duty was to make our beds. Mattress and pillow were stuffed stiff with what felt like wood chips, and was probably straw and corn-husks; the pillow was cylindrical; the mattress was hillocked and hollowed by the uneasy struggles with insomnia of countless former users.
The last time I done straight clairvoyant work, it was in a family hotel with three rooms and a bath and breakfast in bed. Well, there's ups an' downs in this business. I've been down before and up again " Hattie, her mouth relieved of a pillowcase, spoke boldly the question in her mind. "What put you down?"
By the time the pillowcase had been pulled down over his head Mr. Dodge also discovered that he had been swiftly but most effectively bound. For the rest he knew only that he had been carried down the slope, unable to give any alarm, and that he had been lifted into a boat, taken over the river and dumped in the lumber yard.
The sleeping figure in that big four-poster moved a little as the tide of sound played upon it, fidgeting this way and that. The human ball uncoiled, lengthened, straightened out. The head, half hidden by folds of sheet and pillowcase, emerged. Spinrobin unfolded, then opened his eyes and stared about him, bewildered, in the darkness. "Who's there?
And did he see under the soap? And what did you use for a towel?" Johnnie had used a pillowcase. "'Cause what else could I use?" he implored. But Cis did not answer, for she was in tears. And she would not look up even to see him salute. Big Tom had his turn at being appalled this at the supper table, when he observed Johnnie's appetite.
The girls can easily hang it out on the horse really, Joanna, one must trust people to do something." "Well, then, don't blame me when you're a pillowcase short." "I certainly shan't blame you," said Ellen coolly. Joanna felt put out and injured. It hurt her to see that Ellen did not want her supervision she had looked forward to managing Donkey Street as well as Ansdore.
What was much more astonishing was the fact that a waist and a pair of legs protruded from the pillowcase, and the feet were bound. The workman, a dull-witted fellow, thought he had stumbled upon a case of murder, and rushed back to the office. The manager thereupon hurried to the spot and the mystery was quickly solved. The pillowcase being removed, they saw Mr. Dodge, bound and gagged.
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