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Updated: May 22, 2025
There was first the low oak front door on the north, opening on to the little court; this was immensely strong and would stand battering. Then on the same side farther east, within the stable-court, there was the servants' door, protected by chains, and an oak bolt that ran across.
R." He folded this and addressed it with the proper superscription; and left it lying there. It was a strange ride that he had back from Tansley next morning after mass. Dick Sampson had met him with the horses in the stable-court at Matstead a little after four o'clock in the morning; and together they had ridden through the pitch darkness, each carrying a lantern fastened to his stirrup.
Here I found all still and no one stirring; so, keeping a wary eye about me, I went on round the house reversing the route which Madame had taken the night before until I gained the rear of the stables. Here I had scarcely paused a second to scan the ground before two persons came out of the stable-court. They were Madame and the porter. They stood a brief while outside and looked up and down.
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