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Updated: June 28, 2025
As he twisted and pried with his steel lever at the lock of the trapdoor that stood between him and the open air of the housetop, he could already hear the telltale splintering of wood and sharp orders and muffled cries and the approaching, quick tramping of feet.
In the dim, narrow cellar Rathburn was holding his gun aimed at Lamy's heart. "You remember what I said about keepin' your mouth shut?" he asked in a low voice, his steel-blue gaze boring into the other's eyes. Lamy gasped. Then he slowly nodded his head. "That's your bond!" said Rathburn, as tramping feet sounded overhead. Rathburn rose and crouched under the trapdoor, gun in hand.
Rathburn still held his gun in his hand. Both had forgotten the food which Lamy had in his lap. "Say," whispered Lamy. "What was your idea in givin' me back my gun?" He moved closer to get the reply. "Shut up!" said Rathburn, cocking an ear toward the trapdoor. The sound of footsteps now was in the kitchen. They heard horses snorting and men dismounting at the front door.
As the secretary read his title and first name, each self-conscious Indian stepped stiffly forth from the ranks, throwing a foot, heavy with the unaccustomed shoe, high in the air and pounding the earth in the new military style taught him by a willowy young native in civilian dress who leaned haughtily on his cane watching every movement, made a sharp-cornered journey about the sun-flooded yard and bringing up more or less in front of his dreaded chief, gave a half turn, raised the right leg to the horizontal with the grace of an aged ballet dancer long since the victim of rheumatism, brought it down against the left like the closing of a heavy trapdoor, saluted with his night-stick and huskily called out his own last name, which Christmas checked off on the list before him without breaking the thread of the particular anecdote with which he chanced at that moment to be entertaining us.
Snapping on an electric light, the man ascended the steps, and, after fumbling for a moment with the catch, threw open a trapdoor leading to the roof. In a moment both he and Duvall had climbed out upon the tiled surface. Duvall went to the edge which overlooked the house adjoining, and peered down. He at once saw something that interested him.
Warmell here disappears from mortal view, like one of those stage trapdoor vanishings of Mephisto only Mephisto usually comes back, but Warmell never did. Reynolds was very happy at Hudson's studio. He was only seventeen years old when he arrived there, fresh from the country.
And indeed, he found that he could do so easily; and having fixed it firmly, he got hold of the rope, and hoisted himself to the top of the turret. In a minute, Roger was beside him. Feeling about, they soon discovered the trapdoor, on which Roger knocked three times. Then they heard a grating sound below and, shortly, one end of the heavy trapdoor was slightly raised.
'You will find the jugs in the front part of the cellar. Gené lowered her eyes, that the officer might not read the thought that she felt certain was reflected there. "'Come, he said, leading the way to the cellar, which they gained by raising the trapdoor in the kitchen floor and descending a ladder, this being the customary way of getting to the cellar in a peasant's home.
"Why, he's fixed himself in fine style he's fell though the trapdoor, and broke his leg." "Oh, Nancy!" screamed Ellen "he hasn't! How could he?" "Why, easy enough, if he didn't look where he was going there's so much hay on the floor. But it's a pretty bad place to fall." "How do you know his leg is broken?" " 'Cause he says so, and anybody with eyes can see it must be.
Just before the end, when he felt himself seized by his death-sickness, Paul one day called his sister to his bedside, and, commanding her to raise a trapdoor in the floor of his bedroom, showed her his hoard of gold. He then begged, as his last request, that he should be buried privately, and that neither his son, nor indeed any one, should know that he died rich.
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