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He walked forward about ten paces, when he came upon a wall twice as high as the side walls. It had a massive oak door; an electric bell-button shone very white on one side. Ostrov rang once more. The bell-button was very cold, almost icy, to the touch. A sensation of chill passed down his whole body. A round window, like a dim, motionless, observing eye, was visible high above the door.
At last they reached the door of Rosine's dwelling. With a slow movement she pressed her hand upon the bell-button. Then Amedee, with a great effort, and in a confused, husky voice, asked whether he might go up with her and see her little room. She looked at him steadily, with a tender sadness in her eyes, and then said to him, softly: "No, certainly not! One must be sensible.
At the other side of the room was the bell-button. His finger was extended and about to touch it when he stopped to think. "No! Great heavens!" said he. "That makes my third, already, and I'm as dry as the desert of Sahara." He sat down again, an air of martyrdom upon his face. "Ah, well, Miss 'Lethe's worth it. I say, Frank, anything new in the extra?"
"Well, I'll be damned!" he muttered and moving to the side of the car pushed a bell-button viciously. "Sam," he snapped, as his colored man appeared, "go and tell the conductor that I want my car put off on the siding at Needley." "Yes, sah," said Sam. Thornton sat down again heavily.
Without augmented fears, then, though still on the alert for anything that might seem questionable, and more agitated with excitement than she let him suspect, Sofia permitted Mr. Karslake to conduct her to the door. He had barely touched the bell-button when this door opened, revealing a vista of spacious entrance-hall.
I'm goin' to make a MAN of you. By God! I am!" Bibbs rose and went slowly to the door, where he turned. "You say you give me a couple of months?" he said. Sheridan pushed a bell-button on his desk. "Gurney said two months more would put you back where you were. You go home and begin to get yourself in the right 'mental attitude' before those two months are up! Good-by!"
The boy pointed his finger to the left; it was a slow, graceful gesture. "Ring at the small gate there." He ran off so quickly and quietly it seemed as if he had not been there. Ostrov went in the direction indicated. He came to a high, narrow gate. A white electric bell-button shone in a round wooden recess. Ostrov rang and listened.
"To the best of my belief," she laughed, "you insisted upon going. I am sure you were asked to stay to lunch, or whatever it was. By the way, have you lunched now?" She showed concern for her obligations as his hostess. "Yes, thank you at least, it doesn't matter." He had to relinquish her hand, and when she immediately made towards the bell-button, he followed and arrested her.
At last they reached the door of Rosine's dwelling. With a slow movement she pressed her hand upon the bell-button. Then Amedee, with a great effort, and in a confused, husky voice, asked whether he might go up with her and see her little room. She looked at him steadily, with a tender sadness in her eyes, and then said to him, softly: "No, certainly not! One must be sensible.
The circumstances annoyed P. Sybarite intensely. Upon this thought he turned boldly up the steps, pressed the bell-button; laid hold of the door-knob, and entered into a vestibule as dark as his bewilderment and as empty as the palm of his hand; proving that the young gentleman of fashion had experienced no difficulty in penetrating farther into fastnesses of this singular establishment.
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