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She staggered back against the wall of the corridor. Her sight seemed to be affected. She groped for the stair-rail, and held by it. The air was wafted up through the open street-door. It helped her to rally her energies. She went down steadily, step by step, to the first landing paused, and went down again. Arrived in the hall, she advanced to Mr. Keller, and spoke to him.
And on that Tuesday the little lord set foot in the castle; and my lady was down at the door-way to meet him, in a new velvet gown, with her wimple sewn in fine pearls, and my lord with her; but my two nurslings waxed shy at the last minute, and would not come down, but leaned and peered through the posts o' the stair-rail, and my little lady let fall one o' her shoes in her eagerness to glimpse at her new cousin.
Her figure was in the shadow from the waist down, but her bust, her neck, face and long, slim hands were in full light. "I'd never took her for the same woman never!" thought Jan. Next evening Jan saw her again, this time in the narrow second-floor hallway near the stairs. She shrank against the stair-rail to let him pass. Jan drew up against the wall. She mutely indicated that he should pass.
As the man moved across the hall Anne staggered to her feet, feeling along the wall for the electric button, and then suddenly the lights flared up, and the little girl, a desperate pink figure clinging to the stair-rail, looked down into the upraised face of the man below. "Don't," she said, with white lips, "don't go in there "
But over his first blind, incredulous rage there swept a passionate longing to be alone in the house to sit in it and look about him and assure himself. Without thought of what he did, he touched the door-jamb reverently as he stepped across the threshold. He wandered from room to room, and even upstairs, feeling the groove in the oaken stair-rail familiar under his palm.
Small emergencies were constantly arising and finding her at a loss. Once at least every night, Miss Harrison would hear a soft hiss from the back staircase that connected the two floors, and, going out, would see Sidney's flushed face and slightly crooked cap bending over the stair-rail.
Tormented by a foolish fearfulness, she peered anxiously into every dark shadow along the stair-rail as she descended. It was dark and deserted at this hour, lit only by a single gas jet on the second floor. In the shadowy depths of the dark pit, it gave a spot of brightness, even with its flamed turned so low.
The task was sufficiently strenuous to require all the breath Timmons possessed, and he managed to repress his eager curiosity until the wounded man had been attended to. Once in the hall, however, and the door closed, he could no longer control himself. "Now see yere, Jim Westcott," he panted, one hand gripping the stair-rail.
Koenig, surely you remember me?" and Glory's heart seemed to beat like a watch. "No-o, sair. Are you Oh, yes; what am I thinking of? But de lady " "Mr. Koenig," Glory called, cried, gasped over the stair-rail, "ask the gentleman to come up, please."
But Adela was full of excited comments and refused to be hurried, stopping outside to question Hill upon a dozen points regarding the game while he stood stiffly responding, waiting to say good-night. Dot leaned upon the stair-rail, waiting for her, and eventually Fletcher drew Adela's attention to the fact. Adela laughed. "Oh, that's just her way, my dear Fletcher. Some women were born to wait.
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