He uttered the short click which served him as a signal when he played the part of chief conspirator.

She looked straight down at him, but did not move or answer, and he knew that there was someone, an enemy, in the room with her.

The kidnappers still disputed vehemently; and he stole up to the wall, and began to climb the vine which covered the side of the house.
He disturbed a number of roosting small birds; but Dorothy's suitors were putting forward their pretensions to her hand with a clamour which drowned the flutter of wings.

He climbed up and up, and Dorothy never stirred; and at last he looked under her arm into the room.

Elsie, with her elbows on the table, was staring miserably at the grim, forbidding face of an elderly woman who sat on a chair backed up against the door.
Tinker looked at the woman and could scarcely believe his eyes, then he laughed gently, slipped over the window-sill, and said cheerfully, "Hullo, Selina, how are you ?" The grim woman started up with a little cry, stared at him, ran across the room, and began to hug him furiously, crying, "Oh, Master Tinker! Master Tinker! What a turn you did give me!" "Drop it, Selina! Drop it!" said Tinker, struggling out of her embrace.