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The place was in the same state of neatness and order as when he and Harding locked up the night before. He crossed to the street door, unlocked and unbolted it and pulled it open. As he did so, Harding came in through the private entrance. "I say, Eustace, hang it, what have you done with that watch?" he asked. "It's not in my room. Where have you put it?" "I have not seen your watch.
They, too, had been carelessly left unbolted. The man stepped without a sound over the sill into the room. And, as he stepped, fear for herself drove out for the moment from Celia's thoughts fear for the three women in the black room. If only he did not see her! She pressed herself against the pillar. He might overlook her, perhaps!
The ladies, who were at work upon diaries and letters, allowed her to thump and wonder whether she had come to the wrong door, for a certain period; after which, Arabella placidly unbolted her chamber, and Adela presented herself in the passage to know the meaning of the noise. "Oh! ye poor darlin's, I've heard ut all, I have." This commencement took the colour from their cheeks.
No sooner was this unbolted by the foremost guard, than, quick as a flash, manacled Israel, shaking off the grasp of the one behind him, butts him sprawling back into the entry; when, dashing in the opposite direction, he bounces the other head over heels into the garden, never using a hand; and then, leaping over the latter's head, darts blindly out into the midnight.
Hastily arraying themselves in such clothing as came readily to hand, they passed down the stair-way, unbolted the front door, blew out the light, and made their way into the open air. Then they relocked the door from outside and left the place. Their intended destination was the house of Mrs. Summers' sister, but they determined to go round by Mr.
She turned so that the light fell full upon his face, and saw that he looked white and anxious. "May I ask you, as a favour, not to mention your adventure with the burglar? Perhaps it would be better for both of us to be silent about to-night's occurrence." "Why? Where have you been, Gerald? You went to bed before ten o'clock, and" a thought struck her "how came the door to be unbolted?"
A dozen men of mine stand within call here, at the back entrance, and my whistle will call me up another fifty. Bearing this in mind, you will state your business as peaceably as possible." "Nevertheless," said I, "since I have taken a fancy call it a whim, if you will that the door remains at least unbolted. . . ." He shrugged his shoulders. "It will help you nothing."
“Thank you,” said the Devil. “It is more to my interest to leave them where they are.” So the dungeon-door was unbolted, and the Cardinals came forth, sheepish and crestfallen.
There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools. Then I put the fastenings as I had found them, opened the door at which I had entered when I ran home last night, shut it, and ran for the misty marshes. It was a rimy morning, and very damp.
It is years and years ago," he mused absently; "so long ago that I had thought it gone and forgotten. But it was not to be. I will get the proofs," turning to me as he left the chair. "Wait here." He unbolted the door and passed forth. . . . It was a full confession of the deception, written by the mother herself, and witnessed by her physician, the innkeeper and his wife.
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