"Mahala!" screamed Miss Sessions's voice over the banisters, thinking the maid was below stairs; "answer that telephone."

Ask the gentleman to walk in and wait, Katy," cried a voice from above, where the whisk of skirts was followed by the appearance of an inquiring eye over the banisters.

"If he returns I can talk to him over the banisters!...

"Now," she said aloud, "I'll talk to him over the banisters when he returns; it's a little ungracious, I suppose, after all he has done, but it's more conventional....

she thought; and, finger tips on the banisters, she ran down the three stairs and appeared at the basement grille, breathless, radiant, forgetting, as usual, her self-consciousness in thinking of him, a habit of this somewhat harebrained and headlong girl which had its root in perfect health of body and wholesomeness of mind.

She bowed her head in her hands, leaning upon the banisters....

He pushed his way in, followed by his friend, and a head that had been leaning over the banisters was suddenly withdrawn.

He pushed his way in, followed by his friend, and a head that had been leaning over the banisters was suddenly withdrawn.

She led the way; and I, helping myself by the banisters, made shift to get up with less fatigue than I expected from ancles so weak.

Rosine, duster in hand, leant over the banisters of the upper landing to watch its descent.

"It was about two o'clock one morning, as I was finishing some letters, that I heard the door of my mother's bedroom open, and she came to the top of the stairs, and knocked on the banisters.

He stopped, and put his head over the banisters, and in a queer, moved voice answered: "Come and see.

Halfway, he tumbled over something crouched beside the banisters.

Dandy, who had galloped up-stairs, stood looking through the banisters, wagging his tail.

Pete's brown head was visible over the banisters.

Charlie got up early simply because "mother did it" before him; and after he had risen at earliest dawn and dressed himself, he had nothing better to do than walk out on the front gallery, locate himself in a big wicker chair, tilt his chair back and elevate his feet to the top of the banisters, and stare out over the cottonfields.

I screwed up my courage to a decisive experimentopened my door, and in a stentorian voice bawled over the banisters, "Who's there?" There was no answer but the ringing of my own voice through the empty old house,no renewal of the movement; nothing, in short, to give my unpleasant sensations a definite direction.

When I peeped out the lobby was perfectly emptythere was no monster standing on the staircase; and as the detested sound ceased, I was reassured enough to venture forward nearly to the banisters.

The abhorred phantom was before me there; it was standing near the banisters, stooping a little, and with one end of the rope round its own neck, was poising a noose at the other, as if to throw over mine; and while engaged in this baleful pantomime, it wore a smile so sensual, so unspeakably dreadful, that my senses were nearly overpowered.

"Shure, was not it over the banisters he hung himself, the ould sinner, God be merciful to us all?

and a tumble that shook the very house; and there, sure enough, he was lying on the lower stairs, under the lobby, with his neck smashed double undher him, where he was flung over the banisters.

Through the doorway Mr. Gribble saw her helping herself up by the banisters, her left hand still at her throat.

I have gone through a great deal since I saw you...." She descended a few steps, her delicate hand still resting on the banisters, her silken kirtle making a soft swishing noise against the polished oak of the stairs.

She stood leaning against the banisters, one hand behind her, looking her visitor up and down with impertinent eyes.

A short time before I had seen the girl on the staircase bending over cleaning the banisters, her reddened face close to her large hands.