Having secured the outer doors, I returned with less circumspection.

He heard me not when I descended; but my returning steps were easily distinguished.

Now he thought was the guilty interview at an end.

In what other way was it possible for him to construe these signals?
How fallacious and precipitate was my decision! Carwin's plot owed its success to a coincidence of events scarcely credible.

The balance was swayed from its equipoise by a hair.