![]() ![]() It was terrifying to see that silent motion. They had heard no one walk along the verandah. They saw the white china knob of the handle slowly turn. ![]() They were shuttered and the shutters were bolted. They stood facing the windows that led out on the verandah. If it wasn't safe why the devil had she said it was? She caught her breath and put her hand on his arm. It occurred to him that in an emergency she would lose her head and on a sudden he felt angry with her. He doesn't leave the laboratory till five." I'll look out and see that it's all right." Her hair was shingled and with a comb she had repaired its disorder before he had laced his second shoe. She slipped into a kimono and in her bare feet went over to her dressing-table. With a faint gasp of impatience she gave him a shoe-horn. He tried to put them on, but his nervousness, for her alarm was affecting him, made him clumsy, and besides, they were on the tight side. "Walter," she whispered, her lips trembling. "Well, perhaps it was the amah, or one of the boys." Notwithstanding the darkness of the shuttered room he saw her face on a sudden distraught with terror. ![]()
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