He left the doorpost, straightened his bowed back, and laid a hand on the wooden latch.

The clumsy string-lifted wooden door-latches, and the wooden pins fixing the framing, and which have never been cut off, but stick up some inches from the wall, are still all there.

Then I pushed to the door, whose automatic latch clicked.

As the crude latch was lifted, with a very slight creaking sound, a movement was heard inside, and then a heavy body was heard striking the ground at the rear.

Inside stepped Betty, and made breathless pause while she closed it, and the amiable latch fell softly down again into its place.

At the farther side of the wall was the glitter of metalthe latch of a door opening in the wooden wall.

From the door, comes a slight soundthe latch is being slowly raised.

A tight throat-latch invariably makes his head sore.

" The door was indeed lockeda door with a clumsy old-fashioned latch, securely fastened by a staple and padlock.

I almost think I fainted, if one can faint standing, for when I knew anything, after the appalling latching of that door, I was in quite another part of the room and the candle which I still held, looked to my dazed eyes shorter than when I started with it from the place where my sister lay.