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Updated: April 30, 2025
Now the sounds below redoubled: from the clatter and jarring I knew that several people were running up the stairs, and as the sounds approached, I could even hear what they said. "Watch the end staircases!" Jamieson was shouting. "Damnation there's no light here!" And then a second later. "All together now. One two three " The door into the trunk-room had been locked from the inside.
"But now you see why I prize this little rosary so highly. It was what lifted me out of my dungeon of disappointment." Afterward Mary thought of a dozen things she wished she had said to Lloyd while they were there together in the privacy of the trunk-room.
She sprang up and beckoned Archie without so much, he felt sure, as knowing who he was. "Come with me." She went quickly into her sleeping-chamber and threw open a door into a trunk-room. "See that white trunk? It's not locked. It's full of wigs, in boxes. Look until you find one marked 'Ring 2. Bring it quick!"
Or was our whole theory wrong? Would not Paul Armstrong have taken his booty with him? If he had not, and if Doctor Walker was in the secret, he would have known how to enter the chimney room. Then who had dug the other hole in the false partition? Liddy discovered the fresh break in the trunk-room wall while we were at luncheon, and ran shrieking down the stairs.
Trunks were heaped here and there, ready for the trunk-room, and through an end window of stained glass came a streak of red and yellow daylight that was eminently cheerful. The milk-boy was pounding somewhere below, and the day had begun. Thomas Johnson came ambling up the drive about half-past six, and we could hear him clattering around on the lower floor, opening shutters.
I knew mother hadn't come upstairs, for the gas was burning in the halls, as she always turned it off the last thing; and I thought to myself: "If she hears the dog when she comes up, maybe she'll put him out, and I never shall see him again." And before I knew what I was about I was running through the hall and the trunk-room, and so out into the shed.
"If you insist on going back to the beginnings, I shall go back, also to Abigail and the trunk-packing." He planted himself squarely before her, the mask lifted and the masterful soul asserting itself boldly. "It wouldn't do any good, you know. I am going with you." "To Abigail and the trunk-room?" "Oh, no; to the jumping-off place out West wherever it is you are going to hibernate."
This morning instead of hearing Allan, I went up to that trunk-room and rummaged through the chest that has all those old papers and things of Grandfather Delcher's. And would you believe it? For an hour or more there, I was reading bits of his old sermons." "But he was a Presbyterian!"
But I looked into his eyes, and wasn't scared; and I told him everything, every single thing all about how Mother had cried over the little blue dress that day in the trunk-room, and how she had shown the tarnished lace and said that she had tarnished the happiness of him and of herself and of me; and that it was all her fault; that she was thoughtless and willful and exacting and a spoiled child; and, oh, if she could only try it over again, how differently she would do!
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