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Updated: May 28, 2025
One thing was in her favor she knew he was not armed; he had the contempt and the fear of a tried and proved poisoner for cruder lethal tools. It was characteristic also of the difference between these two that Devine should have had his plan stage-set and put to motion long before the woman dreamed of acting.
A pot of white heather stood on the table, and a corncob pipe lay on the sideboard. "This is the most innocent-looking kidnapper's den I ever heard of," he thought. "Any moving-picture director would be ashamed not to provide a better stage-set." At that instant he heard footsteps overhead. Curiously soft, muffled footsteps. Instantly he was on the alert. Now he would know the worst.
He preferred, instead, to look at the glories of Bald Mountain or one of the other hills. There was nothing wrong with the back drop in the home stage-set; it was only home itself that hurt one's feelings. There was no cheer inside, either. The sagging old floors, though scrubbed and spotless, were uncarpeted; the furniture meager.
Miss Thorne, her sunbonnet laid aside from her glossy black braids, moved swiftly and easily here and there in this charming stage-set of a kitchen. About ten feet in front of it, on the pine needles, stood the dining table, set with white. The girl nodded brightly to Bob. "Finished?" she inquired. She pointed to the water pail: "There's a useful task for willing hands."
She had prearranged his reception. It was no accident that had caused him to find her alone in the dimness of the gathering evening. The scanty lighting of the shadowy room had been stage-set to spare them both embarrassment. "If it wasn't your sister " He paused at a loss to know how to proceed further. Her hands came together gently in her lap.
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