After this, the wind rose in sudden strength and deafened him with rattlings; above him, a shutter was swung open and then crashed to, so that the opening of the door was a shock of surprise to Donnegan.

Near the top of the wooden shutter, which Parks and I had put in place, was a small semi-circular opening, to allow the passage of a little light, perhaps, and peering through this opening were two eyestwo burning eyes....

"Godfrey," I said, in a shaking voice, "don't look up; don't move your head; but there is some one peering through the hole in the shutter opposite us.

he said, "and then tell me he isn't a genius!" I followed the direction of his pointing finger and saw that, just opposite the opening in the shutter, a little hole had been cut in the window-pane.

I walked over to the window and stood staring at the wooden shutter, strangely moved.

In fact, one evening we did find a wire connecting with the burglar-alarm cut, and, later on, saw some one peering in through the hole in that shutter yonder.

The room into which I was looking was lighted only by the rays which filtered between the slats of a closed shutter.

Here and there a shutter had broken loose and was sagging on rusted hinges.

Then the black eyes disappeared within, and Kristian Koppig thought again, and re-opening his shutter, stood up at the window prepared to become a bold spectator of what might follow.

The shutter stirred above, and something white came fluttering wildly down like a shot dove.

The Master fell backwards, flat, prostrate, striking the ground with so simultaneous a clap that it was like a shutter falling from a wall.

Simultaneously the shutter of perceptions snapped, photographing permanently upon the super-sensitized film of conscious memory the glimpsed vista of a grim, mean street whose repellent uglinesses grinned through the boding twilight like lineaments of some monstrous mask of evil.

Then he softly locked the door, the key of which he had appropriated immediately after supper, and propped shut the heavy wooden shutter of the window.

In one or two of these cases the offenders had been frightened away before they had done any other injury than the breaking of a window-shutter; but we had been spared any visitation whatever.

It was my opinion that there were few men who, after a night walk and perhaps some labour in forcibly opening a door or a window-shutter, would not cease for a moment in pursuance of their self-imposed task to partake of the refreshments so conveniently left behind them by the occupants of the house when they retired to rest.

When Barlow tried his jimmy on one of these shutters the bolt resisted for a time, but its harmonious proportions caused it to bend, and it was soon drawn from its staples and the shutter opened, and of course the sash was opened as I told you sashes are opened.

It will be remembered that the grocer had reserved a communication with the street, by means of a shutter opening from a small room in the upper story.

Hither he would now frequently repair, and though he did not as yet think it necessary to have recourse to all the precautionary measures he intended eventually to adoptsuch as flashing a pistol when he looked forthyet he never opened the shutter without holding a phial of vinegar, or a handkerchief wetted with the same liquid, to his face.

And he closed his shutter to meditate on what he had just heard.

All at once, however, he was alarmed by a loud cry, and opening the shutter, perceived the youth struggling with two persons, whom he recognised as Sir Paul Parravicin and Pillichody.

" With these words the captain got out the shutter of the door, put it up, made it all fast, and locked the door itself.

* INSTANTANEOUS PHOTO SHUTTER.

M. Audra, in the name of M. Braun, of Angoulême, has presented to the Photo Society of France a new instantaneous shutter.

The shutter is formed by a revolving metallic disk out of which a segment has been taken.

He opened the window-shutter and looked out upon that sublimest of scenes; and so intense and magnificent were its phenomena, that Sir Bale, for a while, was absorbed in this contemplation.