If you want to find out if there is anything in this without a police raid I fancy you had better wait outside.

I'll go in and see them." His slow and reflective walk brought us at length within sight of the house.

It stood up ponderous and purple against the last pallor of twilight.

It looked like an ogre's castle.

And so apparently it was.
"Do you think it's safe, Basil," said his brother, pausing, a little pale, under the lamp, "to go into that place alone?
Of course we shall be near enough to hear if you yell, but these devils might do something--something sudden--or odd.