[The Adventures of Harry Revel by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Revel CHAPTER VII 5/11
For, across the landing, a door faced me; and, as I pushed mine open, this door had moved--was moving yet, as if to shut. It did not quite shut.
It came to a standstill when almost a foot ajar.
Beyond it I could see yet other suits of clothes hanging: and among these lurked someone, watching me, perhaps, through the chink by the hinges.
I was sure of it--was almost sure I had seen a hand on the edge of the door; a hand with a ring on one of its fingers, and just the edge, and no more, of a black cuff. For perhaps five seconds I endured it, my hair lifting: then, with one sharp scream I dashed back into the room and across the corpse; struggled for a moment with the window-sash; and flinging it up, dropped out upon the leads. Out there, in the restorative sunshine, my first thought was to crawl away as fast and as far as possible; to reach some hiding-place where I might lie down and pant, unpursued by the horrors of that house. The roofs on my right were flat; I staggered along them, halting at every few steps to lean a hand for support against one or other of the chimney-stacks, now growing warm in the sunshine. From the far side of one, as I leaned clinging, a man sprang up, almost at my feet.
It was Archie Plinlimmon again.
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