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He went forward in the dark and opened a door at the end of the passage

A glow of ruddy light calireat open chimney and one or

two ain closed The

closing of the door seean a churlish act

"The hospitality," said he to himself, "which plants a ht may not miss his bed should at

least leave the kitchen door open Why should I stay here in the dark?"

Wogan went forward, and from the careful way in which he walked,--a way

so careful and stealthy indeed that his footsteps ht have been inferred that he believed the floor to be newly painted

too He had, at all events, no such scruples about the kitchen door, for

he seized the handle and flung it open quickly He was iving onto a yard at the back

had been opened at precisely the saan stepped

quickly in at his door a man stepped quickly out by the door opposite

and was lost in the darkness