At twenty minutes past eleven a young man named Ryder, who had wandered into Tanton Gardens while endeavouring to take a short cut home, heard the sound of a report, which at the time he took to be the noise of a door violently slammed, coming from the direction of Riversbrook.

Outside, a door slammed heavily; Cold Feet heard the heavy voice of Jerry Bent and the beat of his heels across the floor.

"Whilst I was asking her whether she was all right, a door slammed twice downstairs; and you can imagine how it made me feel.

Yee-p!" He lifted both feet and slammed them on the floor energetically, pausing for a reply.

The door slammed hastily.

Then Racey sprang upon his back with a joyous shout and slammed him headforemost over the wagon-seat into the pile of hay.

In the thin atmosphere, there was only a slight vapor trail and a short-lived but powerful whine; then with a dull, gut-churning thud a ball of black and orange flame slammed obliquely into the desert floor within a quarter of a mile of the atmosphere plant.

Outside, a door slammed heavily; Cold Feet heard the heavy voice of Jerry Bent and the beat of his heels across the floor.

Then the door abruptly slammed, and the man in livery leaped to the seat beside the chauffeur and with a jerk the car darted away.

" The hot blood suffused the temples of the indignant wife as she said, "This apartment, madam, I believe is mine?" "Oh, certainly, as long as you can pay for it;" and rudely slamming the door, the landlady departed.

" Finally, "Well, if you don't like it," he snarled, and lifted his chair by the back and slammed it down, savagely, "if you don't like it, why don't you get out, h'm?

At the chapel I narrowly escaped running into Stoddard, but I slipped past him, pulled the hidden door into place, traversed the tunnel without incident, and soon climbed through the hatchway and slammed the false block securely into the opening.

" Jeremy went to the door, which was partly open, made sure that the servant was out of earshot, and slammed it tight.

As soon as he made known his business, the door was unceremoniously slammed in his face and locked.

A door slammed, somewhere upstairs, so loud it made me jump; but she did not wake.

He hesitated with the door half closed, then opened it wide and slammed it vehemently.

Excited, he made a mistake in the foot he should have used and viciously slammed his left toe against Ophelia's dainty ankle.

She must have felt like some tender and worshipping wife to whom all doors in the house of the beloved are thrown open, except the door of the sanctuary, which is persistently slammed in her charming face.

"This settles it," said Rosie, the housemaid, when he went out angrily slamming the front door.

A minute went by; then the gate on the West side of the gardens, slammed, distantly.