Knock 'is shell hoff!

The knock was repeatedand this time Bodlevski's face lit up.

" Mrs. Barclay was about to express her surprise, when a loud knock was head at the outer door.

Worse perhaps than all, a key of the back-door was found in his pocket, which not only confirmed Strugnell's evidence, but clearly demonstrated that the knocking at the door for admittance, which had roused and alarmed the hamlet, was a pure subterfuge.

* Rat-tat-tat at the door next afternoon, and little Pansy ran to open it, expecting to see the postman, but the knocking was only a bit of Tom's fun.