[The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Thirty-nine Steps CHAPTER THREE 24/34
Can you take me in ?' He caught my elbow in his eagerness and drew me towards the house. 'You can lie as snug here as if you were in a moss-hole.
I'll see that nobody blabs, either.
And you'll give me some more material about your adventures ?' As I entered the inn porch I heard from far off the beat of an engine. There silhouetted against the dusky West was my friend, the monoplane. He gave me a room at the back of the house, with a fine outlook over the plateau, and he made me free of his own study, which was stacked with cheap editions of his favourite authors.
I never saw the grandmother, so I guessed she was bedridden.
An old woman called Margit brought me my meals, and the innkeeper was around me at all hours.
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