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Melrose seemed to have opened the drawer in a fit of abstraction during which he had forgotten Undershaw's presence. But, if so, the act roused him, and he looked round half angrily, half furtively at his visitor, as he hastily relocked the drawer. Then speaking with renewed arrogance, he said: "Well, sir, I will see to these things.
From his deep, regular breathing Jack judged him to be asleep. He relocked the door and joined Pauline. The face of the girl was very white in the moonlight. Her big eyes flashed at him a question. Had he discovered that his prisoner was free? They walked slowly toward the corral. From it Goodheart could see the front of the house, but not the cellar entrance at the side.
To my surprise, he did not examine them, merely remarking approvingly as he relocked the desk: "Decidedly, he is a man of method, this Mr. Inglethorp!" A "man of method" was, in Poirot's estimation, the highest praise that could be bestowed on any individual.
Miss Ingate, not quite knowing what she did, with an equal vagueness followed her. "Come in. Do come in," urged Mr. Moze at the door of the study. Audrey, who remained on the landing, heard her elders talk smoothly of grave Mozian things, while Mr. Moze unlocked the new tin box above the safe. "I'd forgotten a most important paper," said he, as he relocked the box.
I ought now to have a revolver and threaten you, and then this scene would be complete for the stage wouldn't it? But for goodness' sake don't remain here in the cold any longer, my dear little girl. Run off to bed, and forget that to-night you've been walking in your sleep." "Not until I see that safe relocked and you give me the false key of yours.
It did not take long, however, and he soon replaced the copy-book in the precise spot in which he had found it, wiped the pen, and put it carefully back in its place, relocked the desk, hurried back to Elsie's room, put the key just where he had found it, and taking the book, returned to the nursery without having met any one.
This he unlocked with a key fastened to a steel chain, took out the tray, felt about among the contents, and drew out a morocco-covered dressing-case, of good size and of evident value, bearing on its top a silver plate inscribed with a monogram and crest. The trunk was then relocked and shoved under the bed. At this moment a knock startled him.
Philip hesitated a moment, and then banged down the lid of the chest, and relocked it as his servant returned to the room. The man was a solemn, dignified, and reticent person, who had been groom to the late Bishop. His gravity he had acquired from his horses, his dignity from his master; but his reticence he had created for himself, being a thing beyond nature in creature or man.
Accordingly, the worthy Irishman produced a huge key from his pocket, and led the way to the door of the vault, which he opened, and having admitted the youth, relocked it, after requesting the visitor to knock loudly upon the door when he desired to come out. 'Who is there? demanded the negro in a hollow voice, from a remote corner of the dungeon.
There were conclusions she wished instinctively to avoid, from which she instinctively desired escape. She forced aside the all-too-affectionate, bay filly who crowded upon her, shot back the bar of the gate and relocked it. Then, once again, she kissed the pretty beast on the forehead as it stretched its neck over the top of the gate. "Good-bye, dear lass," she said.
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