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Before the study door he paused. There was no sound. He threw open the door, directing the torch-ray into the room. Cutting a white lane through the blackness, it shone fully upon his writing-table, which was a rather fine Jacobean piece having a sort of quaint bureau superstructure containing cabinets and drawers. He could detect nothing unusual in the appearance of the littered table.
Discovering from the dancing of the torch-ray that his hand was trembling, Stuart concluded that he had awakened from a nightmare and that this fiendish wailing was no more than an unusually delayed aftermath of the imaginary horrors which had bathed him in cold perspiration. He walked resolutely to the door, threw it open and cast the beam of light on to the staircase. Softly he began to descend.
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