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Returning to the door of the inner room, he turned the key in it; crossing to the door by which the detectives had been shown in, he locked that also; proceeding to a cupboard in an adjacent recess, he performed an unlocking process after which he produced a decanter, a syphon, three glasses, and a box of cigars.
When they grew calmer, Anthea put her handkerchief in her pocket and her arm round Jane, and said "It can't be for more than one night. We can signal with our handkerchiefs in the morning. They'll be dry then. And someone will come up and let us out" "And find the syphon," said Cyril gloomily; "and we shall be sent to prison for stealing" "You said it wasn't stealing.
Marsden had bidden the waiter leave the bottle and the syphon on the table, and was already mixing himself another stiff peg. "Well," he said, "since you will have it so to the old days." "To the old days," said Romarin, watching him gulp it down. "Queer, looking back across all that time at 'em, isn't it? How do you feel about it?"
"Because he is a dangerous adventurer. "That's a lie, first sizz out of the syphon," broke in another voice. "I have the honor to be a friend of John D. Curtis. My name is Howard Devar, and I'll stand for John D. all the time against the noble Earl and any God's quantity of blue-blooded, full-blooded Hungarians."
"Well?" Rickman's hand closed fiercely over the top of a soda-water syphon. Pilkington followed the movement with an innocent, but by no means unobservant eye. Only the other day they had been rivals for the favour of Miss Poppy Grace, which seemed to be very evenly divided between them. If Rickman had her heart, he Pilkington held her by the power of the purse.
It was evening: and myself and the two acquaintances I had made in the fair namely, the jockey and the tall foreigner sat in a large upstairs room, which looked into a court; we had dined with several people connected with the fair at a long table d'hote; they had now departed, and we sat at a small side-table with wine and a candle before us; both my companions had pipes in their mouths the jockey a common pipe, and the foreigner, one, the syphon of which, made of some kind of wood, was at least six feet long, and the bowl of which, made of a white kind of substance like porcelain, and capable of holding nearly an ounce of tobacco, rested on the ground.
What have you got in that drawer?" Conyers locked the drawer abruptly, and jerked out the key. "What do you want to know for?" His visitor grinned boyishly. "Don't be bashful, old chap! I always guessed you kept her there. We'll drink her health, too, in a minute. But first of all" he was splashing soda-water impetuously out of a syphon as he spoke "first of all quite ready, I say?
After a while she recovered sufficiently to tell him that she had not slept at all during the night, and felt extremely unwell and quite unstrung in consequence. Another fit of immoderate and tearful laughter followed, and Hyacinth, embarrassed and alarmed, fetched a tumbler of soda-water from the syphon on the sideboard.
On a little stool in the corner stood the half-emptied decanter of brandy and a glass and a syphon of soda-water. . . . Goodness knows, I'm not a superstitious or even an imaginative man; I had been in that room before and had hated it, on account of its poignant associations; nothing transcendental had affected me; but now I shuddered, physically shuddered, as though the cubic space were informed with a spirit in the torture of an everlasting despair.
The room was small but comfortably furnished. There was a fire ready laid in the grate; on the ceiling was a three-branch electrolier, but the switch by the door had been removed for some reason or other. On the table by the bed was a very liberal supper, flanked by a decanter of whisky and a syphon of soda water, also a box of cigarettes and another of cigars.
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