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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER VIII
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The nipping of the victim's toes and finger-tips testified powerfully to that.
Round to the front of the house at a trot, he stood in moonlight.

Then, for involuntarily he now did everything running, with a dash up the steps he seized the sullen pendant bell-handle, and worked it pumpwise, till he perceived a smaller bell-knob beside the door, at which he worked piston-wise.

Pump and piston, the hurly-burly and the tinkler created an alarm to scare cat and mouse and Cardinal spider, all that run or weave in desolate houses, with the good result of a certain degree of heat to his frame.

He ceased, panting.

No stir within, nor light.


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