Inspector Seldon knocked loudly at the front door with the big, old-fashioned brass knocker, and rang the bell.

" The heavy brass knocker again reverberated on the thick oak door, and Inspector Seldon placed his ear against the keyhole to ascertain if any sound was to be heard.

He remained in a listening attitude for half a minute and then plied the knocker again.

Then they left us to our pipes; but before the smoke was fairly started, there came the gallop of a horse up the roadway past the kitchen garden, and a moment later the great brass knocker was plied by a vigorous hand.

fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.

Kristian Koppig noticed from his dormer window one day a man standing at the big archway opposite, and clanking the brass knocker on the wicket that was in one of the doors.

A soft knock, as of fat fingers, made Mon glance towards the door, and bid the knocker enter.

So I came round in front of the house, and gave a rat-tat on the door, while my pulse beat as loud inside of me as ever did the knocker without.

Just as he spoke there came a double knock at the house door, yet heavy and dull, as though the knocker had been tied up.

There it came again very hard, and what was particularly astounding the knocker seemed to be in a hurry, and not to be in the least afraid of the consequences.

I knew I'd got the street right, and I said, 'I'll find that house if I have to ring every bell in Selwood Terrace, yes', and knock every knocker!'

One of the trio was a strong, heavy-faced heavy-handed, louring man of some thirty years (it seemed probable that he was the knocker), and the others were cur

CHAPTER VIII INSIDE BRITISH LINES "Drat that knocker!" said Peter Provoost.

It was a square, comfortable-looking mansion, with the Dutch stoep in front, and the half-arch of small-paned glass above the front door, which was painted white and bore a massive brass knocker.

That same knocker was a source of much irritation to Peter Provoost; for although he was of fair size for his thirteen years, he could barely reach it when mounted on the very tips of his toes, and even then never dared touch its shining surface unless his fingers were cleana desirable state of neatness which, alas!

On this cold December afternoon Peter stood, books in hand, and surveyed that aggravating knocker from his stand on the sidewalk.

Therefore Peter debated whether it would be wiser to skirt around the mansion and gain entrance by the area steps, where no doubt he would encounter Dinah, the cook (who objected to invasions of unclean shoes), or boldly ascend the front steps, struggle with that balefully glittering knocker, and trust to Pompey's somewhat dim eyes to escape remonstrance before he could gain his own room and make himself presentable.

"Oh, what a shame," reaching up successfully to the brass knocker; "but I am sure Pompey will forgive me, and you can"stopping short as the door opened and Pompey himself stood bowing low in the hall.

A loose pillow block box is a good "knocker."

" Evans hastened on, while Carteret sounded the old-fashioned knocker upon the doctor's door.

This price of sixty minutes startled me a little; and, for a week, I meditated with some seriousness on the superior gaiety of a life spent in paving the streets, driving a wagon, or answering the knocker of a door.

The brass knocker.

The brass knocker.

" At this moment there came a loud knock at the door; a single, solid dab of the knocker which Polton seemed to recognize, for he ejaculated: "Good lord, sir!

" The merchant bowed, and knocked at the door of a red brick housedoor greenbrass knocker.