Abduct my daughter at the dead of night, would you, you scoundrels?
We'll see about that.

If you don't leave this house as thoroughly frightened as ever you were in your lives, I know nothing about the fourth dimension." Meanwhile he heard them both groping about the floor after the lamp.

The woman found it, and pressed the button.

The ray fell on the man's face, and he saw that the olive of his skin had turned to a ghastly grey.

His eyes were wide open, and his mouth and nostrils were working with intense excitement.