They will come.
"HELEN." Tom rubbed his sticky eyelids, and shook his head violently in a Spartan effort to rouse himself; but what more effectively performed the task for him were certain sounds issuing from Harkless's room, across the hall.

For some minutes, Meredith had been dully conscious of a rustle and stir in the invalid's chamber, and he began to realize that no mere tossing about a bed would account for a noise that reached him across a wide hall and through two closed doors of thick walnut.

Suddenly he heard a quick, heavy tread, shod, in Harkless's room, and a resounding bang, as some heavy object struck the floor.

The doctor was not to come till evening; Jim had gone down-stairs.

Who wore shoes in the sick man's room?
He rushed across the hall in his pyjamas and threw open the unlocked door.
The bed was disarranged and vacant.