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He stood there, shaking The narrowness of the escape turned him cold If he had been an instant later, there would have been a crash loud enough to wake a dozen sleeping houses This sort of thing could not go on He ht be a chance of soate: but it was a risk thatabout in this darkness any longer He groped his ith infinite care to the door, on the wall adjoining which, he presuht switch would be

It was nearly ten years since he had last been inside Windles, and it never occurred to hie even a woman like his aunt Adeline, of who candles and oil-lamps as a means of illumination His only doubt hether the switch here it was in most houses, near the door

It is odd to reflect that, as his searching fingers touched the knob, a delicious feeling of relief ca man actually felt at that moment that his troubles were over He positively smiled as he placed a thuly and sharply, and instantaneously there leaped at him out of the darkness a blare of music which appeared to his disordered mind quite solid It seemed to wrap itself round hile instant the world had beco he stood there, frozen, he did not know: nor can one say how long he would have stood there had nothing further co even the impromptu concert, there caun, and, when he heard that, Said limbs relaxed and a violent activity descended upon hiht and to left for a hiding-place One of the suits of armour which had been familiar to hiht came the recollection of hohen ahide and seek with his cousin Eustace, he had concealed himself inside this very suit and had not only baffled Eustace through a long su hih the vizor of the helmet Happy days, happy days! He leaped at the suit of aret his head into it at last, and the body of the thing was quite roomy