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One thing I don't know, though whether you climbed out of a window to break open the trap-door, or whether you got up through the trap-door itself and pulled the bolt with a string through the jamb, so as to bolt it after you." "There was no available window. I used the string, as you say. My poor little cunning must seem very transparent to you, I fear.
"'For your sake I will; we may see others of our acquaintance before leaving this, says he, sorter queer-like, as if to mean, no doubt of it. "The door of the room we had been talking in shut of its own accord. We stooped, and he touched a spring in the wall, a trap-door flew open, showing a flight of steps.
On looking round he saw a ladder, which led through a trap-door to the floor above. "Your lodging is to be up there," said O'Harrall, pointing to it. "It may remind you of a place in which you once gave me shelter. I have not forgotten that. I wish that I could afford you better accommodation; however, it is sufficiently large and airy, and you will, I hope, find it as comfortable as you desire.
Night had come on, he was going to leave when he said to me: 'Look here, Maitre René, before I go I must let you into a secret about this house. He opened that cupboard, which is let into the wall there, and pushed the back of it in; this let him into a little closet, where he bowed down and raised a trap-door.
He looked up at me with rather an ugly expression upon his face, but he made no movement to take my hand, only turned away. "Help me up, Stewart," he said huskily. "I want to go to my room and wash, and " "What is the meaning of all this, pray?" said a cold, harsh voice, and we all looked round to see Mr Rebble's white face just above the trap-door.
Why, only last month a set of hoss-thieves from down the river went through the Wea plains an' stole sixteen yearlin' colts, drove 'em down to the river, loaded 'em on a flat-boat an' got away without losin' a hair. Done it on a Sunday night, too." It was a few minutes past nine when Kenneth followed his host up the ladder and through the trap-door into the stuffy attic.
I tell you I love her." But he disguised these feelings under an enormous bellowing and hurraying. As for Miss Fotheringay and her behaviour, the reader is referred to a former page for an account of that. She went through precisely the same business. She surveyed the house all round with glances of gratitude; and trembled, and almost sank with emotion, over her favourite trap-door.
He remembered last time he was here seeing a heap of tiles in one corner, with a pile of disused poles; pieces of rope, and old iron in another. The stairs led up through an ordinary trap-door into what was the ground-floor of the house.
Wilfrid's Needle=. From a trap-door in the pavement below the piscina a flight of twelve steps winds down into a flat-roofed and descending passage, 2-1/2 feet wide and slightly over 6 feet high, which, running a few feet northwards and bending at right angles round the south-west tower pier, extends eastward for about 10 yards, with a descent of one step near the end, and terminates in a blank wall.
I was put into the attic, reached by a ladder, and, barricading the trap-door as well as I could, went to sleep with one eye open. Nothing, however, occurred, and in the morning I found my wild-looking men up as early as I, and was not a little disturbed when they proposed to keep me company across the forest.
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