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Updated: May 27, 2025
With the released hand he had snapped the catch of an electric pocket-lamp, and in its blue glare he drew the revolver away from my head, and stepping aside, but always covering me with his weapon, motioned me to the further stool.
As I did so, the whistle was again repeated, but from some spot further away, to the left of the porch, and from low down upon the ground. Just as I glimpsed something moving under the lee of the porch, the match was blown out, for I was hampered by the handbag which I carried. Thus reminded of its presence, however, I recollected that my pocket-lamp was in it.
I turned out the light... and in the darkness of my own study I saw a fiery fist being shaken at me threateningly!... The bones were distinctly visible, and the luminosity of the flesh was truly ghastly. "Turn on the light, again!" cried Smith. Deeply mystified, I did so... and my friend tossed a little electric pocket-lamp on to the writing-table.
Grimly pitting my will against the drug, but still trembling weakly from the result of the treatment, internal and subcutaneous, which I had adopted, I staggered to the door out into the corridor and up the narrow, winding stairs to Smith's room. I carried an electric pocket-lamp, and by its light I found my way to the triangular, paneled landing. I tried the handle.
Like Kerry, he always carried an electric pocket-lamp, and now he directed its rays into the interior of the building. A tiny spaniel, whining excitedly, was engaged in scratching with its paws upon the dirty floor as though determined to dig its way through. As the light shone upon it the dog crouched affrightedly, and, glancing in Seton's direction, revealed its teeth.
I turned out the light ... and in the darkness of my study I saw a fiery fist being shaken at me threateningly!... The bones were distinctly visible, and the luminosity of the flesh was truly ghastly. "Turn on the light again!" cried Smith. Deeply mystified, I did so ... and my friend tossed a little electric pocket-lamp on to the writing table.
We do not doubt you or suspect any fraud, but we want to see clearly, and to follow the development of the phenomena. That is why M. Scarpa surveys the cabinet between the curtains, illuminating it occasionally with an electric pocket-lamp.
He stepped across the disordered room to a little alcove near the foot of the bed, directing the ray of the pocket-lamp upon the small, square paneling. "Ah!" he cried, a note of triumph in his voice "he has left the door ajar! A visit of inspection was not anticipated to-night, Petrie! Thank God for an Indian liver and a suspicious mind."
We looked at each other for a full minute in silence our eyes meeting in the queer, bluish light of the electric pocket-lamp which he had set on the table before us. Between us, too, was that revolver always pointing at me out of its one black eye. "If it's all the same to you, Mr. Hollins," said I at length, "I'd prefer you to trust to my honour.
Ten paces amid absolute darkness, and we found ourselves abreast of a branch corridor. At the further end, through a kind of little window, a dim light shone. "See if you can find the trap," whispered Smith; "light your lamp." I directed the ray of the pocket-lamp upon the floor, and there at my feet was a square wooden trap.
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