The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-30
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in all conscience. I stood on the
ledge. whence my heels pTotruded
over open space, while the wind tug
Eed at me, striving ever 20 rob me
of the balance I so hardly maintained
Ny chin was on a level with the up
per sill To look into the room, must
bend down. To do this / must cease
mOmentarily to hatten myself against
the pane and must stilI further inn
pair my doubtful balance.
Yet with the corner of my eye as
I moved my head slightly backward,
/ could see a few inches within the
window
Just inside lace curtains huns. This
clinched the matter in my mind The
place was no church. At first / fan
cied Il might be- and that this room.
brightly lighted at midnight, might
be the rectOr's study But common
sense dismissed the idea
& minister would not be like 10
climb eighty or ninety feet Of steep
stair every time he wanted to reach
40. II was not a church. Yet. IN
what manner OF country edihc'- would
5here bc so high curtai1fed window
And why would there be HEnJ al
J. o'clock
However, my present position was
little more conducive to the Solving
Of abstract problems than had been
my situation when j swung M MO
air At any moment a gust OF wind
might sweep me out into the night
That the occupant Of the room
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and see my unwieIdIy shape crouch
ing outside the glass was improbable
The lace curtains. while they would
be easy enough TO look in through
from without would fairly enectuaIIy
prevent anyone inside from seeing
I through them an object outside
That the rooms occupant could hear
my STgaltlE motions, amid that hubbuD
OF storm. was impossible. ! could hare
shouted or sung whole opera unheard
out there
: 7 bent my knees slowly. one after the
other bTarluE myself as ] did so by
pressing one fattened palm on either
E size of the window embTaSurc. Down,
iuEh by inch. sank my head. until my
( eyes were on level with tie very
] could not yet see clearly into the
room For the thick curtain pole barred
my vision of all save the narrow strip
Of space between itself and the win
dow top
In This strip I could see little cIus-
: ter Of ElaTiuE electric light globes in
the center Of the ceiling At the far
side Of The room stood a big wardrobe
Beside 70 was the door ! could see
lar down she wall. at the room farther
extremity because Of the angle OF Wis
ion permitted 10y the narrow strip be-
tween window top and curtain pole The
I latter. OF course, hid all below il save
ar the rooms FAR extremity.
But I could see the door more than
( halfway down And j idly noted that
T
/ heavy bolt bur that the bolt was shot
into its socket
] saw more. too. in that first quick
E-aG~e- before my eyes. in the slow
3eyoI shat narrow line Of vision and
I into the broad scope Of view below the
pole ] saw on the door the shallow 81
. the had and shoulders Of man Tie
forward
For the moment 7 raucied ne had
/ feaFa or seen me and that De was
CrCTcLiuE sfcr q spring OF attack an
on this midnight intrduer from the
outer darkness
Then the window pole was before
/ my eyes Then, In nay slow cautions.
downward movement, my face passed
below the pole and commanded q fun
vision q the whole room
For the diapEanOus curtains scarce
ohscrued at all the brilliantly lighted
( .HIeti'E- The blaze 81 light m0Weu-
taTl-E oaZZItd me Then my vision
cleared and I saw.
IL was large rather LuNgFioGsTE
I furnished hotel bed room At table
a lif-Ie nearer TO the boIted door rrsD
10 the electric lights. sat man. He
I ms Forward scanning something that
/ law spread out on the IA bile before
him.
was now on one knee on the win
. COW ledge and peeriuE eagerly f-
y or something about the mans Ha--
uTe o. attitude was familiar 10 mo
-iF hands were stiIi pressed against
( lle en- 2Easure, and 7 made no sound
el j iElUk he very Intensity Of ms
gaze must lslVe affected the man ar
sEe table, for % a sudden he turned
ms head and glanced impatieutIv over
MS shoulder
And 7 saw. ny that change Of nosf-
ton not only his face. bur what a.
. spread before him on the table. and
az the sight I weIi-niEh pitched back
ward from my risky perch.
For lying On the table were -Fa
missing Rittenhouse bonds
And turning a haEga~d face 70
ward the window waS-I[ar- Vaughn
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