I left them in the closet.
I now glided across the apartment to the door.

I was not a little discouraged by observing that the key was wanting.

My whole hope depended on the omission to lock it.

In my haste to ascertain this point, I made some noise which again roused one of the sleepers.

He started, and cried, "Who is there ?" I now regarded my case as desperate, and detection as inevitable.