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'You just come along, said the keeper; and Cyril dared not oppose him with violence, because just then the syphon began to slip again. So they were all marched into the Vicarage study, and the Vicar's wife came rushing in. 'Oh, William, are you safe? she cried. Robert hastened to allay her anxiety. 'Yes, he said, 'he's quite safe. We haven't hurt him at all.
The Laughing Man had decidedly made a hit. The mountebanks around were indignant. A theatrical success is a syphon it pumps in the crowd and creates emptiness all round. The shop opposite is done for. The increased receipts of the Green Box caused a corresponding decrease in the receipts of the surrounding shows. Those entertainments, popular up to that time, suddenly collapsed.
Marbury rang for some whiskey and soda," continued Mrs. Walters. "He was particular to have a decanter of whiskey: that, and a syphon of soda were taken up there. I heard nothing more until nearly midnight; then the hall-porter told me that the gentleman in 20 had gone out, and had asked him if there was a night-porter as, of course, there is. He went out at half-past eleven."
The bartender emerged from a door leading into the back room, with a tall, empty glass in his hand, and Morrow asked for a beer. As he stood sipping it, he watched the bartender replenish the empty unwashed glass he had carried with a generous drink of doubtful looking absinthe and a squirt from a syphon. "Bum drink on a cold morning," he observed tentatively. "Have a whisky straight, on me?"
"Why, massa, taint worf while for to git mad about de matter Massa Will say noffin at all aint de matter wid him but den what make him go about looking dis here way, wid he head down and he soldiers up, and as white as a gose? And den he keep a syphon all de time " "Keeps a what, Jupiter?" "Keeps a syphon wid de figgurs on de slate de queerest figgurs I ebber did see.
Cyril had also sat down, and was leaning forward with his elbows on his knees because of the soda-water syphon. "But how did you come to be locked up in the church-tower?" asked the Vicar. "We went up," said Robert slowly, "and we were tired, and we all went to sleep, and when we woke up we found the door was locked, so we yelled." "I should think you did!" said the Vicar's wife.
"This looks as though Jacques had been entertaining his friends," she said, pointing to the collection of bottles on the sideboard and the syphon and whisky decanter on the table. "By Jove, it does!" Roger ran his eyes over the miniature bar. "Martini vermouth, Noilly Prat, Gordon gin, Angostura, Bacardi rum, absinthe pre-war, at that. If your Jacques mixes all these drinks "
There were home papers; there were books; there was fruit and a syphon, cut lemons and crushed ice everything thoughtfulness could suggest set within easy reach. But the nameless depression of convalescence hung heavy on his spirit and his limbs. He was thirsty; he was lonely; he was mentally hungry in a negative kind of way.
He went on upstairs, and then it suddenly occurred to him to ask himself what the spot on the linoleum might be. Apparently some subconscious element was at work. At any rate, he turned with his burden, went back to the hall, put down the syphon and whiskey, and bending down, touched the spot. Without any great surprise he found it had the stickiness and colour of drying blood.
"Cool in summer warm in winter modern fire-grate, you notice. Come here when I want to do a bit of quiet thinking, what?" "Good place for that certainly," agreed Bryce. Folliot pointed his visitor to one of the big chairs and turning to a cabinet brought out some glasses, a syphon of soda-water, and a heavy cut-glass decanter.
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