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Updated: June 15, 2025
The flood poured on, gushing down the stair-way, at the foot of which Rann and his two men stood, all armed with wrenches and tools. Rann shouted. "I'll break the head of any one who comes!" The men in advance tried to break away, well content to leave their heads whole, but those in the rear pushed them on. Whack! whack! went the wrench the leader fell.
This time we were not taken to the house in which we had met the Priest Captain, and whence we had been delivered from imprisonment by Tizoc's gallant rescue of us; but, passing a little beyond this house, we were led up a broad stair-way to the plateau which crowned the city, and on which stood the great Treasure-house that also was the temple in which the Aztlanecas housed their most venerated gods.
So, sometimes when we were starting out, my thoughts bounding with the anticipated pleasure, he would stop me midway on the stairs: 'Frère Hecker, he would say, 'please remain at home, and instead of the walk wash and clean the stair-way. It would nearly kill me to obey, such was my disappointment, grief, humiliation."
Bernardine looked just a trifle weary when the clock on the mantel struck ten, and Doctor Gardiner rose to depart. "Shall I hold the light for you?" she asked. "The stair-way is always very dark." "If you will be so kind," murmured the doctor. Jasper Wilde's face darkened as he listened to this conversation. His eyes flashed fire as they both disappeared through the door-way.
In silence he followed Sir Everard in, up the noble marble stair-way, along richly carpeted, softly lighted corridors, and into a stately chamber. "You will sleep here," Sir Everard said. "My room is near, and I am a light sleeper. To-morrow morning at five I will rouse you. Until then adieu, and pleasant dreams." He swung out and closed the door, and not once had he seen the face of his guest.
She lifted her face and looked tenderly into his eyes, shaking her head slowly, and then, as he bent over again, she clasped her arms about his neck and strained his face to hers. Not until the opening of the door at the stair-way stirred them did they notice that the music and dancing below had ceased.
The utmost Montgomery had yet been able to persuade her to do was to peep fearfully up that uncanny stair-way, from the dimness below to the utter gloom at top. To ascend it, as he did, nimbly hand over hand the mere thought of it set her shuddering. Now he was gone, and there! She knew it.
He moved back into the deep gloom of the stair-way shadow, and sank down upon the pavement. In a moment he was fast asleep. He dreamed that he, too, was dining out. Laughter and merry-making were on every side. The dishes of steaming viands were grotesque in bulk. There were mountains of fruit and torrents of wine.
Have you any message to deliver to my lady before we part?" "No. She'll send a message to me during the day, or I'm mistaken. If she don't, why, I'll send one back with you to-night. By-bye, Mrs. Parmalee that is to be. Take care of yourself until to-night." The gentleman walked down the stair-way alone toward a side entrance.
"The bonny gentleman need not fear the old gypsy," returned the woman, with convincing dignity. Turning, he walked beside her to the end of the block. She paused before a tall, dark tenement house, up whose narrow stair-way she proceeded to climb after stopping a moment to gather sufficient breath.
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