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That satisfied ht and then

another of dirty creaking stairs and found ht, dirtier, , and with the ork

broken away here and there

Up another flight worse still, and by the light of a staircaseI

could see that the plaster ceiling was down here and there, showing the

laths, while the as blackened by hands passing over it On the

handrail side the balusters were broken out entirely in the erous way; but all this seemed of no consequence whatever, for there

was the boy still going on, evidently to the very top of the house

All at once there was silence above one,

but he was only listening, and as he heard , evidently sohiher

By this time I was up to the second floor, where there were a couple of

battered doors and another staircasenearly without glass, the