16, in visible physical distress and mental embarrassment.

The windows of the whole street had filled, as if by magic, with interested and entertained spectators.
With as thoughtful and scientific an expression as he could assume, Gideon measured the doorway with his cane, while Julia entered his observations in a drawing-book.

He then measured the box, and, upon comparing his data, found that there was just enough space for it to enter.

Next, throwing off his coat and waistcoat, he assisted the men to take the door from its hinges.

And lastly, all bystanders being pressed into the service, the packing-case mounted the steps upon some fifteen pairs of wavering legs--scraped, loudly grinding, through the doorway--and was deposited at length, with a formidable convulsion, in the far end of the lobby, which it almost blocked.