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But during his absence the stair and the turret-door were entirely disused, and this made Andrew's observation somewhat remarkable. "Have you often observed that door open?" was my question. "No just that often neither; but I hae noticed it ance or twice. I'm thinking it maun hae been the priest, Father Vaughan, as they ca' him.
The lights which gleamed in the library at unusual hours the passing shadows which I had myself remarked the footsteps which might be traced in the morning-dew from the turret-door to the postern-gate in the garden sounds and sights which some of the servants, and Andrew Fairservice in particular, had observed, and accounted for in their own way, all tended to show that the place was visited by some one different from the ordinary inmates of the hall.
And I expect you to stop all fights in future at once." "Very well, sir," said young Brooke, touching his hat, and not sorry to see the turret-door close behind the Doctor's back.
He lifted his head and looked about him. Emptiness, stark emptiness, was all he saw. Yet, in a moment, as though a hand had beckoned, he arose. Without a backward glance he traversed the distance that lay between him and the turret-door. He went through it into utter darkness, and in utter darkness began the descent.
But during his absence the stair and the turret-door were entirely disused, and this made Andrew's observation somewhat remarkable. "Have you often observed that door open?" was my question. "No just that often neither; but I hae noticed it ance or twice. I'm thinking it maun hae been the priest, Father Vaughan, as they ca' him.
What gave the Tower so dark a name was the memory of old Sir James de Nort, Mark's grand-father, an evil and secret man, who had dwelt at Nort under some strange shadow; he had driven his son from his doors, and lived at the end of his life with his books and his own close thoughts, spying upon the stars and tracing strange figures in books; since his death the old room in the turret top, where he came by his end in a dreadful way, had been closed; it was entered by a turret-door, with a flight of steps from the chamber below.
The lights which gleamed in the library at unusual hours the passing shadows which I had myself remarked the footsteps which might be traced in the morning-dew from the turret-door to the postern-gate in the garden sounds and sights which some of the servants, and Andrew Fairservice in particular, had observed, and accounted for in their own way, all tended to show that the place was visited by some one different from the ordinary inmates of the hall.
Rashleigh's away, it canna be him, I trow." The turret-door to which he alluded opened to the garden at the bottom of a winding stair, leading down from Mr. Rashleigh's apartment. This, as I have already mentioned, was situated in a sequestered part of the house, communicating with the library by a private entrance, and by another intricate and dark vaulted passage with the rest of the house.
"Na, na," answered Andrew boldly; then shaded away his negative with, "unless it be on Fastern's-e'en, or the like o' that But indeed it's no muckle matter what the folk do to the midden pootry, for they had siccan a skarting and scraping in the yard, that there's nae getting a bean or pea keepit for them. But I am wondering what it is that leaves that turret-door open; now that Mr.
"Well but, Brooke," said the Doctor, "doesn't this look a little as if you exercised your discretion by only stopping a fight when the School-house boy is getting the worst of it?" Brooke, it must be confessed, felt rather gravelled. "Now remember," added the Doctor, as he stopped at the turret-door, "this fight is not to go on; you'll see to that.
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