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Updated: May 16, 2025
Anne lay upon her pillow, her own eyes gazing out through the ivy-hung window of her tower at the blue sky and the fair, fleecy clouds. A flock of snow-white doves were flying back and forth across it, and one sate upon the window's deep ledge and cooed. All was warm and perfumed with summer's sweetness.
He threw the papers back on the table, gave the secretary a sign, and stepped back to the window's niche with the others, quietly continuing the interrupted conversation. Nobody could read from Andrea's eyes what a burden had, in this moment, fallen off his soul. The secretary started again. "You understand foreign languages?" he asked. "I speak French and a little German, Your Grace." "German?
"I don't know," said the clerk, staring about him wildly in the darkness. "I've only just got back. I told you I had a long day's work this morning I locked the door and shut the window down it's open now, the window's open. Look! somebody has got in there and taken the keys." He turned to the casement window to show me that it was wide open.
I had listened in a sort of fascination to that tirade of venomous mockery. But now I stirred, and pulled the casement open. I peered down into the darkness and hesitated. The wall was creeper-clad to the window's height; but I feared the frail tendrils of the clematis would never bear me. I hesitated. Then I resolved to jump.
Summerlee nodded his reluctant acquiescence and held out his thin hand to Challenger. "We've had our quarrels in our time, but that's all over," said he. "We were good friends and had a respect for each other under the surface. Good-by!" "Good-by, young fellah!" said Lord John. "The window's plastered up. You can't open it."
There were five of them. Two looked to be gentlemen, and three were of rougher appearance. They carried lanterns. "That window's open," said one of the gentlemen. "They must have been here to-day. Hello, what's this?" He started back in surprise. I slid down from the window-seat, and stood facing them, not knowing what else to do. They, too, seemed equally confounded.
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