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Updated: June 1, 2025
Aunt Marion spread a pallet for me, lay down at my side, and bade me not fear but sleep. And I slept. Suddenly I was broad awake. Distant but approaching, I heard horses' feet. They came from the direction of the fort. Aunt Marcia was unbarring the shutters and fastening the inner jalousies so as to look out unseen.
He knew that something valuable was concealed. He had spotted the place. He found that the stone which covered it was just too heavy for a man to move unaided. What would he do next? He could not get help from outside, even if he had some one whom he could trust, without the unbarring of doors and considerable risk of detection. It was better, if he could, to have his helpmate inside the house.
Daddy Skinner heard the horse coming down the hill, heard Frederick as he said his low, "Good-night, my darling," and unbarring the door, the fisherman waited impatiently for his daughter to enter the shanty. One glance and he stretched out his hand. "Ye're sick, brat," he stammered. "Be ye sick, my pretty?" Dropping her eyes, Tessibel shook her head. "Nope, I ain't sick," she faltered. "But but "
Many hasty surmises whirled together in the Commandant's brain the first, and hastiest, that Vashti, unable to make her escape, had aroused Archelaus, and that Archelaus was unbarring the door for her on the pretence of hearing a knock. Even so, she would be caught as soon as she reached the shore.
Without waiting for an answer she led him to the end of the large room and, unbarring another door that they had not noticed, revealed a passage, beyond which appeared trees and flowers. Then she and her companions went away with the fragments of the meal. "Come on," said Alan, taking up the box containing Little Bonsa, which he did not dare to leave behind, "and let us get into the air."
A sound coming from the hall below caused the intruder to slip behind a curtain. A lackey was unbarring the door. The man in the gallery wondered why. "My very nerves have ears," he murmured. "If I were sure . . . to pay madame a visit while she sleeps and dreams!" His hand grew tense around the hilt of his sword.
Not unfrequently the whole night was spent in this way; and when, about daybreak, the weary prisoner fell into a doze, he was waked from his slumber by the grinding noise of the locks, and the unbarring of the doors, with the cry of 'Turn out! All out! when each man took down his hammock, and lashed it up, and slung it on his back, and was ready to answer to the roll-call of the turnkey."
The dogs were as still as the humans, but they followed a little behind me. When I got to the three log doorsteps I heard them unlocking and unbarring and unbolting. I put my hand on the door and pushed it a little and a little more till somebody said, "There, that's enough put your head in." I done it, but I judged they would take it off.
"Who's that?" whispered Frank. "That's the sentinel," replied Bart. Then they came to the door of a certain room, on which Hodge knocked in a peculiar manner. A faint sound of unbarring came from behind the door, which quickly opened, and they dodged into the room. As yet there was no light in the room, and, still filled with wonder, Frank asked: "Was that the regular sentinel out there, Bart?"
"They will find quite enough without that," said the practical girl, but her voice quavered. "Yet if they had seen Ah, how selfish to think of that now! Hush that was a groan! He is alive still." She moved towards the window, but Polly dragged her back by main force. "Listen, Miss!" Below they heard the sudden unbarring of doors, and Endymion's voice calling for Mudge, the butler.
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