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I could hear them through the transom." She slipped her hand into Kirk's and sat silent while the car slid into the traffic of Fifth Avenue. For the second time the shadow of the Great Mystery had fallen on the brightness of the perfect morning. The car had stopped at Thirty-Fourth Street to allow the hurrying crowds to cross the avenue. Kirk looked at them with a feeling of sadness.
During the many visits of Captain Riga to the ship, he always said something courteous to a gentlemanly, friendless custom-house officer, who staid on board of us nearly all the time we lay in the dock. And weary days they must have been to this friendless custom-house officer; trying to kill time in the cabin with a newspaper; and rapping on the transom with his knuckles.
At length Captain Transom addressed the elder prisoner. "You have sent for us, Mr what can we do for you, in accordance with our duty as English officers?" The poor man looked at us with a vacant stare but his fellow sufferer instantly spoke. "Gentlemen, this is kind very kind. I sent my mate to borrow a prayer book from you, for our consolation now must flow from above man cannot comfort us."
Over the door there is sometimes the bow of a fine transom, and the parlor windows on the first floor of the swell front have the same azure gleam as those of the beautiful old houses which front the Common on Beacon Street. When her husband bought his lot there, Mrs. Halleck could hardly believe that a house on Rumford Street was not too fine for her.
I shan't keep you long." At her imperious gesture Laura slid out of the room at an apologetic angle, her head twisted for a final shy glance back at Lucine who was apparently absorbed in her papers. When safely outside in the corridor Berta seized her about the waist and whirled her away from all possible earshot through cracks and transom.
He started back almost instantly. The occupant was snoring with extreme heartiness. A glance revealed a light in the transom of room 32. As he looked, however, it disappeared. Abashed, he turned and went swiftly away. She was going to bed. He felt like a snooping, despicable "peeping Tom" caught in the act. He had been in his room for twenty minutes before he heard the tapping on his door.
"But suppose the door has no transom?" he asked, pointing to our own door. I scratched my head, thoughtfully. I had assumed that the door would have a transom. A moment later, Craig went to the cabinet and drew out a tube about as big around as a putty blower and as long. "Now, here's what I call my detectascope," he remarked. "None of your mirrors for me."
Further on upon the same page the Dean of Canterbury, passing without notice from symbols to instruments of execution and making no distinction whatever, states that "Crosses were of two kinds. The Crux Simplex, 'of one single piece without transom, was a mere stake, used sometimes to impale, sometimes to hang the victim by the hands." Exactly so.
Tom knew that if his mind's eye picture of the room's arrangement were correct, the metal reflector would be of no avail unless tilted at a slight angle from the horizontal, right inside the transom. For a moment he stood upon the bucket, not daring to budge. He could hear his own breathing, and far away the steady, dull thud of the tireless machinery.
Outside the office force was arriving. They were comfortably ignorant of my presence, and over the transom floated scraps of dialogue and the stenographer's gurgling laugh. McKnight had a relative, who was reading law with him, in the intervals between calling up the young women of his acquaintance. He came in singing, and the office boy joined in with the uncertainty of voice of fifteen.
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